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Jack and the Beanstalk

Be happy go wacky!

5.7/ 1019521h 18mNR

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Two down-on-their-luck loafers take a job babysitting, with a bedtime story of the titular tale turning into a wacky Abbott and Costello-faced musical retelling involving stolen cows, terrible giants, and the heroic boy with an opportunistic butcher in a castle above the clouds.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Bud Abbott

Bud Abbott

Mr. Dinkel / Mr. Dinkelpuss

Lou Costello

Lou Costello

Jack / Jack Strong

Buddy Baer

Buddy Baer

Sgt. Riley / The Giant

Dorothy Ford

Dorothy Ford

Receptionist / Polly

Barbara Brown

Barbara Brown

Mrs. Strong

David Stollery

David Stollery

Donald Larkin

William Farnum

William Farnum

The King

Shaye Cogan

Shaye Cogan

Eloise Larkin / Princess Eloise (Darlene)