John Grant
Known for Writing
Filmography
38 films, 1 show
Known for Writing
Filmography
38 films, 1 show

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.

Fireman Save My Child
1954 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1953 · 1h 17m
country: United States
As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951 · 1h 23m
country: United States
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).

Mexican Hayride
1948 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948 · 1h 23m
country: United States
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.

Buck Privates Come Home
1947 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

The Naughty Nineties
1945 · 1h 16m
country: United States
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Here Come the Co-Eds
1945 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.

Lost in a Harem
1944 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

In Society
1944 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.

Hit the Ice
1943 · 1h 22m
country: United States
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.

It Ain't Hay
1943 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

Who Done It?
1942 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Pardon My Sarong
1942 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Keep 'Em Flying
1941 · 1h 26m
country: United States
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.

Ride 'Em Cowboy
1941 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Hold That Ghost
1941 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

In the Navy
1941 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.