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To get this movie buy
The Best of Abbott & Costello, Vol. 2 (Hit the Ice / In Society / Here
Come the Co-Eds / The Naughty Nineties / Little Giant / The Time of
Their Lives / Buck Privates Come Home / The Wistful Widow of Wagon
Gap)
This DVD is a awesome deal. The film quality
is nice. It's not a cheap reproduction and you get 8 movies for less
than the price of one new movie.The
Time of Their Lives Movie Review
This movie is just so much fun to watch with the entire family. Kids
will love the antics of Costello as a Revolutionary war era ghost that
must try to prove he's not a traitor or never get to leave his
haunting ground till the end of the crack of doom. This is a great
movie to watch around Halloween. It kind of reminded me of watching
the old Walt Disney Legend of
Sleepy Hollow cartoon. I suppose it's the colonial style costumes.
Abbott doesn't do as much as usual in this picture, but Costello
really makes the picture. Some consider this picture one of the best
of Abbott and Costello. It delivers plenty of laughs even though it
departs from their usual comedic formula.
Time of Their Lives Abbott and Costello movie poster
Films - The
Time Of Their Lives
By Michael Russell
Abbott and Costello were known as comics. Their movies were supposed
to be nothing more than vehicles for their comedy routines. The
plots were thin, or non existent. It didn't matter. They were funny
enough that they could get away with just throwing a bunch of
routines together and call it a movie. But something very strange
happened with the making of "The Time Of Their Lives" from 1946. The
film was directed by Charles Barton and written by Val Burton and
Walter DeLeon. The thing about the film that was so strange was that
it wasn't really all that funny. It was just a very good movie. And
by the time it was over, there wasn't a dry eye in the theater. What
the heck happened?
What happened was
that Abbott and Costello made what was arguably their best movie
ever. Was it a fluke? Did it just happen? Did they look for better
material? Did better material just land in their laps? Nobody will
ever know the answers to these questions, but one thing is for
certain. A better Abbott and Costello film you will never see.
The story is fairly simple. A tinker
(Costello) is given a letter from General George Washington during
the American Revolution that he must deliver. Something, however,
goes terribly wrong (thanks to Abbott) and the tinker and his female
companion, played by Marjorie Reynolds, are shot as traitors. A
curse is then put on them to be confined to Danbury acres until the
crack of doom or until their innocence could be proven.
Move ahead a couple of hundred years. The
tinker, who's name was Horatio Prim and the poor girl, who's name
was Melody Allen, were still stuck on Danbury acres, still searching
for proof of their innocence. At this point, they had just about
given up. But then they overhear one of Abbott's ancestors, Dr.
Ralph Greenway, discussing the legend of the traitors. Ultimately
this leads them to believe that the proof, the letter from George
Washington, was somewhere on the grounds. This leads to the search.
The location of the letter is finally revealed
through a séance where the ghost of Melody's boyfriend, Tom Danbury,
gives them clues to where the letter was hidden. Of course, it's not
that easy as it turns out that the letter is in a clock that was
donated to a museum. Thus begins the mad dash to retrieve the clock
and prove their innocence.
After the doctor steals the clock, since it
was revealed that his ancestor set up the tinker, a mad chase begins
involving the police. The police may have won this chase but thanks
to Prim's quick thinking and the fact that he was a ghost and
invisible, he is able to keep them busy long enough for Greenway and
the others to open the clock and retrieve the letter. Once it was
read, their innocence was proven and their souls were set free.
Yeah, not your typical Abbott and Costello
movie.
Michael Russell Your Independent guide to
Films.
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