July 28 movie: Zombies on Broadway. Georg wasn't up for a Thin Man movie tonight, and we forgot about our Netflix selections, and that left this. It was called Zombies on Broadway and starred Bela Lugosi and Abbott and Costello wannabees Wally Brown and Alan Carney. Do I need to say any more about the quality of the movie, or can you guess?
I was hoping it would be deliriously bad but no, it was just bad. I don't even like real Abbott and Costello movies, much less a knock-off. There were a couple of funny moments floating in an ocean of bad jokes and failed gags. Plus more ugly caricatures of African American and Caribbean people than you can shake a stick at. That part of the movie was painful.
Lugosi vs. a monkey wearing a snappy little outfit. In a slapstick battle reminiscent of classic Warner Bros. cartoons. While not hardly worth the price of admission, a pretty grand cinematic moment nonetheless.