Dance With Me Henry A Tribute to Great Comedy Team ***

Interesting for A and C Fans, But Not Much Fun

carnival scenes shot at the Willow Grove Amusement Park

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in The Noose Hangs High (1948)

Charles Laughton, Bud Abbott, Hillary Brooke, Lou Costello, and Fran Warren in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff, Bud Abbott, Lenore Aubert, Lou Costello, and Donna Martell in Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949)

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Mitzi Green in Lost in Alaska (1952)

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Marilyn Maxwell in Lost in a Harem (1944)

Bud Abbott, John Carroll, Lou Costello, and Kathryn Grayson in Rio Rita (1942)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Bud Abbott, Lynn Bari, Fred Clark, and Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)

Robert Cummings, Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, and Peggy Moran in One Night in the Tropics (1940)

William Bendix, Bud Abbott, Louise Allbritton, Lou Costello, William Gargan, and Patric Knowles in Who Done It? (1942)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Africa Screams (1949)

Bud Abbott, Lois Collier, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Joe Sawyer, and Henry Travers in The Naughty Nineties (1945)

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Rusty Hamer in Dance with Me, Henry (1956)

You're my friend? Remind me never to talk to you again!

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Dance with Me, Henry (1956)

Bud Abbott in Dance with Me, Henry (1956)

Lou Costello

Bud Abbott

Gigi Perreau

Devery Freeman

William Kozlenko

László Kardos

Two goofballs try to run a beaten-down old amusement park.

Charles Barton

Dance with Me, Henry

Farewell To A&amp;C

In 1955 after Abbott&amp;Costello Meet The Mummy, Bud and Lou finished their long stint with Universal Pictures. They did one more film, an independent released by United Artists titled Dance With Me Henry.

The title comes from a hit song of the time that her nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs had a hit record of. It&apos;s heard instrumentally at some points in the film. The film has a role reversal of sorts, Bud is a shiftless gambler who owes some big money to gangster Ted DeCorsia because of some bad bets and Lou is the owner of a small amusement park, beloved by the kids especially the orphans from a home run by Father Frank Wilcox. Lou being the good hearted soul that he is takes Bud in.

But the gangsters want their money from Bud and if not they want him to go to work for them on some jobs like a bank heist they pulled just recently. Lou arranges to meet the District Attorney Robert Shayne and tell him what he knows. But then at the amusement park the DA is killed by DeCorsia&apos;s chief henchman Richard Reeves and Reeves also hides the loot from the job because he&apos;s planning a double cross. 

It&apos;s quite a jackpot the boys have themselves in, but there&apos;s a providence that watches out over innocents in films. And in Dance With Me Henry, Lou is almost Stan Laurel like in his innocence.

That&apos;s what&apos;s missing in Dance With Me Henry. The old burlesque routines that one expects from an Abbott&amp;Costello film just aren&apos;t here for their fans to savor. Abbott who&apos;s usually a sharpie and always putting stuff over on Costello is the idiot here and it doesn&apos;t wear well on him. He&apos;s also put on a lot of pounds and he&apos;s almost as rotund as Costello. Lou&apos;s character is something new, as if he was trying to explore new vistas.

The film didn&apos;t go over so good and the boys split up the following year. And Lou would do one solo feature film before his demise two years later. Dance With Me Henry is not a horrible film, but it just isn&apos;t what I and other fans came to expect from Bud and Lou. They deserved something better as a farewell.

In 1955 after Abbott&Costello Meet The Mummy, Bud and Lou finished their long stint with Universal Pictures. They did one more film, an independent released by United Artists titled Dance With Me Henry.

The title comes from a hit song of the time that her nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs had a hit record of. It's heard instrumentally at some points in the film. The film has a role reversal of sorts, Bud is a shiftless gambler who owes some big money to gangster Ted DeCorsia because of some bad bets and Lou is the owner of a small amusement park, beloved by the kids especially the orphans from a home run by Father Frank Wilcox. Lou being the good hearted soul that he is takes Bud in.

But the gangsters want their money from Bud and if not they want him to go to work for them on some jobs like a bank heist they pulled just recently. Lou arranges to meet the District Attorney Robert Shayne and tell him what he knows. But then at the amusement park the DA is killed by DeCorsia's chief henchman Richard Reeves and Reeves also hides the loot from the job because he's planning a double cross. 

It's quite a jackpot the boys have themselves in, but there's a providence that watches out over innocents in films. And in Dance With Me Henry, Lou is almost Stan Laurel like in his innocence.

That's what's missing in Dance With Me Henry. The old burlesque routines that one expects from an Abbott&Costello film just aren't here for their fans to savor. Abbott who's usually a sharpie and always putting stuff over on Costello is the idiot here and it doesn't wear well on him. He's also put on a lot of pounds and he's almost as rotund as Costello. Lou's character is something new, as if he was trying to explore new vistas.

The film didn't go over so good and the boys split up the following year. And Lou would do one solo feature film before his demise two years later. Dance With Me Henry is not a horrible film, but it just isn't what I and other fans came to expect from Bud and Lou. They deserved something better as a farewell.

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