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    Jack and the Beanstalk (English Subtitled)

    Family, Comedy.

    Eloise Larkin (Shaye Cogan) and her fiancé Arthur's (James Alexander) plans to attend the rehearsal of a play are jeopardized because no one will babysit her obnoxious kid brother Donald (David Stollery). Eloise phones the Cosman Employment Agency, where Mr. Dinkle and Jack (Abbott and Costello) just happen to be seeking work.

    Jack flirts with Cosman employee Polly (Dorothy Ford), but he is thwarted by the arrival of her boyfriend, a towering police officer (Buddy Baer). Polly sends Dinkle and Jack to babysit, but an attempt to lull the boy to sleep by reading the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk (Jack's "favorite novel") aloud fails when Jack stumbles over the larger words. Bemused by Jack, Donald reads the story instead — a role-reversal made complete when Jack falls asleep as Donald reads. In his slumber, Jack dreams that he is the young Jack of the fairy tale.

    In his dream, Jack learns that a Giant (Buddy Baer), who lives in a castle in the sky, has taken all of the kingdom's food as well as the crown jewels. The dire situation obliges the kingdom's princess to marry a Prince (James Alexander) from a neighboring kingdom whom she has never met. Jack must also make sacrifices.

    His mother sends him to sell the last family possession, their beloved cow "Henry", to the local butcher, Mr. Dinklepuss. Along the way Jack meets The Prince, disguised as a troubador, who is kidnapped by the Giant soon afterward. The unscrupulous Dinklepuss pays Jack five "magic" beans for the cow. Upon returning home, Jack learns that the Giant has also kidnapped The Princess (Shaye Cogan) and Henry.

    Undeterred by his mother's disappointment over the beans, Jack plants them and a gigantic beanstalk grows overnight. He decides to climb the beanstalk to rescue everyone from the Giant's clutches and retrieve "Nellie", the golden-egg laying hen that the Giant previously stole from Jack's family.

    Upon learning of Nellie's existence, Dinklepuss joins Jack on the adventure. When they reach the top of the beanstalk Jack and Dinklepuss are captured by the Giant and imprisoned with the prince and princess. The princess falls for the troubador after he serenades her, only to later learn this is the same prince she was betrothed.

    After the Giant releases Dinklepuss and Jack from the dungeon in order to toil around his castle, they befriend his housekeeper, Polly, who helps them escape over the castle wall along with the royal prisoners, Nellie and some of the Giant's stolen gems (pilfered by the greedy Dinklepuss). They flee down the beanstalk with the Giant in pursuit, as Polly escapes the castle behind him, astride Henry.

    During the descent, Dinklepuss loses Nellie (who falls into the arms of Jack's mother) and then the gems, which rain down upon the impoverished townsfolk below. Once all are on the ground, Jack chops down the beanstalk, sending the Giant falling to his death. The villagers rejoice over their liberation by dancing around the hole the Giant made from his fall while amusingly singing "He Never Looked Better in his Life".

    Just before being rewarded by the King for heroism, Jack is rudely awakened from his dream by Donald, who breaks a vase over Jack's head just as Eloise and Arthur return home. Jack's angry outburst over Donald's behavior results in a second blow to the head from Dinkle, which returns Jack to his dream state. After greeting the others as their storybook counterparts, Jack walks off into the night with the bravado of "Jack the Giant-Killer". (Wikipedia)

    Movie Info

    Directed by: Jean Yarbrough
    Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford, Barbara Brown, Shaye Cogan, James Alexander
    Produced by: Alex Gottlieb, Pat Costello, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
    Written by: Nat Curtis, Pat Costello

    Music by: Heinz Roemheld
    Cinematography: George Robinson
    Edited by: Otho Lovering
    Production company: Exclusive Productions
    Distributed by: Warner Bros.

    Release date: April 12, 1952
    Running time: 78 minutes
    Country: United States
    Language: English, English subtitled

    Cast

    Bud Abbott
    Lou Costello
    Shaye Cogan
    James Alexander
    Buddy Baer
    Dorothy Ford
    Barbara Brown

    Characters

    Jack / Jack Strong
    Mr. Dinkle / Mr. Dinklepuss
    Polly / The housekeeper / Receptionist
    The Giant / Sgt. Riley
    Eloise Larkin / The Princess / Darlene
    Arthur / The Prince




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