Screenplay: John Grant

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Grant. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

1948 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Bela Lugosi · Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey (Costello) and Chick Young (Abbott) is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein's monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Hold That Ghost

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Mischa Auer · Richard Carlson

Plot Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted...

6.2

613 votes

6.2

613 votes

Buck Privates

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Patty Andrews · Maxene Andrews

Plot Bud and Lou enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail, and soon find themselves in boot camp. To their dismay, the company's drill instructor...

5.9

45 votes

5.9

45 votes

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Nancy Guild · Arthur Franz

Plot Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the...

5.8

144 votes

5.8

144 votes

The Time of Their Lives

1946 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Marjorie Reynolds · Binnie Barnes

Plot Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.

5.6

28 votes

5.6

28 votes

In the Navy

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Dick Powell · Claire Dodd

Plot Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to Russ...

5.6

81 votes

5.6

81 votes

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Patricia Medina · Walter Slezak

Plot Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the...

5.6

36 votes

5.6

36 votes

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

1955 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Fred Clark · Lynn Bari

Plot Harry and Willie buy the Edison Movie Studio in the year 1912 from Joseph Gorman, a confidence man. They follow Gorman to Hollywood where, as stunt men, they find him...

5.5

29 votes

5.5

29 votes

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

1955 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Marie Windsor · Michael Ansara

Plot Bud and Lou find themselves pursued by an Egyptian cult for a special medallion linked to a walking mummy.

5.5

140 votes

5.5

140 votes

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Boris Karloff · Lenore Aubert

Plot Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman...

5.4

69 votes

5.4

69 votes

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1953 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Boris Karloff · Craig Stevens

Plot Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. They wind up in jail and are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors...

5.4

58 votes

5.4

58 votes

Double Crossbones

1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Donald O´Connor · Helena Carter · Will Geer · John Emery

Plot Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on the ship of local buccaneer Bloodthirsty...

5.2

38 votes

5.2

38 votes

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

1952 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Charles Laughton · Hillary Brooke

Plot Oliver "Puddin' Head" Johnson (Lou Costello) and Rocky Stonebridge (Bud Abbott) are on their way to Death's Head Tavern, where they work. They encounter Lady Jane (Fran Warren), who asks...

5.2

91 votes

5.2

91 votes

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Mari Blanchard · Robert Paige

Plot Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber...

4.9

51 votes

4.9

51 votes

Keep 'Em Flying

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Martha Raye · Carol Bruce

Plot When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps...

Not rated

Not rated

Rio Rita

1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction S. Sylvan Simon

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Kathryn Grayson · John Carroll

Plot Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Not rated

Not rated

Comin' Round the Mountain

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Dorothy Shay · Kirby Grant

Plot Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.

Not rated

Not rated

The Noose Hangs High

1948 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Joseph Calleia · Leon Errol

Plot Abbott and Costello are two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent...

Not rated

Not rated

One Night in the Tropics

1940 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

The Naughty Nineties

1945 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Alan Curtis · Rita Johnson

Plot In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor...

Not rated

Not rated