Genre: Comedy/Horror Director: Charles Barton (Wagon Wheels, The Milkman). Starring: Lon Chaney Jnr as Larry Talbot aka The Wolf Man, Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, Bud Abbott as Chick Young and Lou Costello as Wilbur Grey.
The synopsis goes something like this ... Considered one of the comedic duo's best movies, Abbott amd Costello play a pair of freight handlers, Wilbur Grey and Chick Young, whose world is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein's Monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to re-energize with Wilbur's brain, while Larry Talbot (The Wolf Man) arrives from London and teams with Chick in an attempt to thwart Dracula. However, when the full moon rises all hell breaks loose with the Wolf Man, Dracula, and Frankenstein's Monster running rampant.
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Chaney Jnr maintained a career in Universal Pictures horror movies long after starring in The Wolf Man (1941), replaying the hairy one in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945) as well as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. He also starred as Frankenstein's Monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Kharis the mummy in The Mummy's Tomb (1943), The Mummy's Ghost (1944) and The Mummy's Curse (1944), and the offspring of Count Dracula in Son of Dracula (1943). Chaney Jnr is thus the only actor to portray Universal's four major monsters.