Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd "TV-Animated" Beautifully directed by Victor Saville

Beautifully directed by Victor Saville (Green Dolphin Street)

In exchange

a nifty film noir thriller that Time deemed "worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers headed by Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes

a six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks in this adaption of a classic Grimm fairy tale

" It's all great Kiplingesque adventure

Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd "TV-Animated" Beautifully directed by Victor SavilleAbbott. Costello. Laughton. Three stars boasting one Oscar between them deliver the yo ho ho ho ing of this merry musical comedy tale of pirates and buried treasure. Casting an acclaimed actor renowned for gravitas in a knockabout romp may seem unusual. Yet Academy Award winner* Charles Laughton, who portrayed menacing Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty and the title role in the swashbuckling adventure Captain Kidd, sails into this sea of silliness