ISMAIL AND ABDEL MEET FRANKENTEIN (1954)

     ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEETS FRANKENSTEIN was a huge hit for the comedy team and Universal Studios. The film played around the world and like all big Hollywood hit movies there was copycats and ripoffs.
     HARAM ALEK (1954) aka: SHAME ON YOU (Title in English) and ISMAIL AND ABDEL MEET FRANKENSTEIN (Home video / DVD title) Was shot in Egypt and is mostly a scene by scene copy of the Abbott and Costello film. This film featured Ismail Yasseen and Abdel Fatah Kasri.
     I saw this film on some sort of an Arabic You Tube type site that is no longer up. There was no subtitles but I could fallow the film because it pretty much copies the Abbott and Costello film closely.
     The Frankenstein monster in this film is played by a big man dressed in black clothes and wearing a mask. The mouth of the mask is set in a wide grin. He looks like a cousin of Herman Munster.
     The Wolf Man is under the spell of the Vampire in this film and returns to normal once the vampire is killed off.
     There was another copy of ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEETS FRANKENSTEIN made in Mexico called FRANKESTEIN, EL VAMPIRO Y COMPANIA (1960)  I will write about that another time.

The Monster from ISMAIL AND ABDEL MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1954)