What Is The Movie Abbott Costello Meet Frankenstein About?

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), a horror comedy that parodies a plethora of Universal monster films, was directed by Charles Burton, produced by Robert Arthur, and written by Robert Lees, Frederick I. Rinaldo and John Grant. The film delivers a comical adaptation of typical horror/monster films through the comedy duo of Lou Abbott and Bud Costello and their romp with three notorious monsters: Dracula (Bela Lugosi), The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.) and Frankenstein’s monster (Glenn Strange).
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein opens with an anxious man placing a call from London to a Florida freight-handling branch of a railway station. A freight-handling employee, Wilbur, answers the call and is warned not to open the two crates addressed to “McDougal’s House of Horrors” until the London man makes his arrival at the station. This conversation abruptly ends when the London man turns into a werewolf as a full moon rises.
Back at the delivery company, Mr. McDougal arrives to request the immediate delivery of the two crates for his “House of Horrors”. He reveals that the crates hold the bodies of two notorious monsters: Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster. As Wilbur and his fellow employee, Chick, attempt to follow this request, Count Dracula sneakily escapes his coffin and revives Frankenstein’s monster. Together, the monsters escape the railway station and the disappearance of their bodies lands Wilbur and Chick behind bars on suspicion of theft.
The pairing of Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster, with the help of Wilbur’s love interest, Sandra, allows the development of an elaborate scheme to lure Wilbur into Dracula’s castle. It is there that an operation is to be performed where Wilbur’s brain will be removed and inserted into the Frankenstein monster to create a more trainable and obedient creature.