Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Charles Lamont

Writers:

John Grant (additional dialogue)
Robert Lees (writer)
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Release Date:

26 July 1951 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions. |

Plot Keywords:

Hillbilly | Potion | Title Based On Song | Skunk | Elevator

Cast

Bud Abbott	...	Al Stewart
Lou Costello	...	Wilbert Smith
Dorothy Shay	...	Dorothy McCoy
Kirby Grant	...	Clark Winfield
Joe Sawyer	...	Kalem McCoy
Glenn Strange	...	Devil Dan Winfield
Ida Moore	...	Granny McCoy
Shaye Cogan	...	Clora McCoy
Margaret Hamilton	...	Aunt Huddy
Guy Wilkerson	...	Uncle Clem McCoy
Robert Easton	...	Luke McCoy (as Bob Easton)
Virgil S. Taylor	...	Jasper Winfield
Russell Simpson	...	Judge
Hank Worden	...	Target Judge
Jack Kruschen	...	Gangster in Night Club
O.Z. Whitehead	...	Zeke
Norman Leavitt	...	Zeb
Peter Mamakos	...	Gangster in Night Club
Stanley Waxman	...	Clay
Dan White	...	Mountaineer
Joe Kirk	...	Bit Role
William Fawcett	...	Old Mountain Man
Harold Goodwin	...	Mountaineer
Jane Lee	...	Fat Woman in Cafe
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Barry Brooks	...	Gangster in Night Club
Shirlee Allard	...	Bit Role (uncredited)
James Clay	...	Bit Role (uncredited)
Fred Crow	...	Hillbilly & Wagon Driver (uncredited)
Sherman Sanders	...	Square Dance Caller (uncredited)
Robert R. Stephenson	...	Captain (uncredited)

Directed by
Charles Lamont

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
John Grant		additional dialogue
Robert Lees		writer
Frederic I. Rinaldo		writer

Produced by
Howard Christie	....	producer

Cinematography by
George Robinson

Film Editing by
Edward Curtiss

Art Direction by
Bernard Herzbrun
Richard H. Riedel		(as Richard Riedel)

Set Decoration by
Russell A. Gausman
Joseph Kish		(as Joe Kish)

Costume Design by
Rosemary Odell

Makeup Department
Joan St. Oegger	....	hair stylist
Bud Westmore	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fred Frank	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Leslie I. Carey	....	sound
Robert Pritchard	....	sound

Special Effects by
David S. Horsley	....	special photography

Stunts
Vic Parks	....	stunt double (uncredited)

Music Department
Joseph Gershenson	....	musical director
Milton Rosen	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Larry Russell	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Paul Sawtell	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Walter Scharf	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Walter Schumann	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Frank Skinner	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Universal International Pictures (UI)

Distributors

• Universal Pictures (1951) (USA) (theatrical)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (1994) (USA) (VHS)
• Universal Home Entertainment (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

The Real McCoy (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

77 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-8 | Sweden:15

Company:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Quotes:

[after seeing a goat]
Wilbert: Funny-looking dog.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)

Soundtrack:

You Broke Your Promise

Worse then Africa Screams

In my rewatching of the Abbott and Costello series that I loved in my youth, this is by far the worst of the series that I have rewatched. The problem is not in the subject material. The problem is in the script, the execution and the performances. Abbott and Costello have never been more bland and the songs from the Manhatten Hillbilly take up seemingly half of the movie's length. The song about a half an hour in goes on forever. The old granny is fun but isn't allowed to do enough. The "courtship" between Costello and the 14 year old hillbilly girl is ghoulish. Bud Abbott is non-existent and the hillbilly clans do nothing whatsoever. There are a few chuckles and nothing more. The opener and the conclusion are awful. On the bright side, Glenn Strange is great here and Costello's duel with the witch is funny. Costello's "christening" is a gut buster. But that's it. Has a little of the same flavor as The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap but isn't in the same league, much less the same ballpark.