Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a
1948 comedy/
horror film in which characters played by
Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello deliver large heavy crates to a wax museum only to discover that the contents --
Frankenstein's monster and
Dracula -- are neither wax nor dead.
Bela Lugosi stars as Dracula;
Glenn Strange[?] stars as Frankenstein's monster; and
Lon Chaney Jr. makes an appearance as the Wolfman. The film was directed by
Charles T. Barton[?] from a screenplay by
Robert Lees[?],
Frederic I. Rinaldo[?] and
John Grant[?].
In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.