Name: Sips & Screen: Abbott & Costello DOUBLE FEATURE
Start: 2025-10-19T14:00:00-04:00
Location: The Avalon Theatre

Sips & Screen: Abbott & Costello DOUBLE FEATURE

Sips & Screen
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein & Meet The Mummy
Sunday, October 19, 2025 @ 2pm
In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum's director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou's friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.
Director - Charles Barton
Production year - 1948
Studio - Universal Pictures
Runtime - 83 minutes
Cast - Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi, Lenore Aubert, Lon Chaney Jr.
INTERMISSION – Enjoy Halloween Trivia, Refills, Costume Contest with Avalon Prizes!
The 28th and final Abbott and Costello film produced by Universal-International.
The film is primarily set in Cairo. Two expatriate Americans are supposed to work as guardians of a mummy during its transportation, but their prospective employer is murdered and the mummy is stolen. The duo are left in possession of a sacred medallion which supposedly records the location of a hidden treasure. They get acquainted with a female treasure hunter and with the modern followers of the mummy.
Directors – Charles Lamont
Production year – 1955
Studio – Universal Pictures
Runtime – 79 minutes
Cast – Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Richard Deacon
Tickets: $10.00
Happenstance Brewing Project will be here with a cash bar featuring a variety of beer choices for your movie going pleasure!