A rousing good time for Abbott and Costello fans is contained in this spoof on fiction’s classic bogeyman [from stories by Sidney Fields and Grant Garrett]. The fat & thin comics combat Boris ...

He hires private eyes Abbott and Costello to help him in his mission. When Franz injects himself with a serum possessing powers of invisibility, a flock of amusing sequences are touched off.

“I was always a fan of the Dracula tale,” she told Fallon. “My brother and I were obsessed with Abbott and Costello as kids, and, you know, they have a whole, like, Meet the Monsters series.