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Dance with Me, Henry | 
 enlarge | Director: Charles Barton
Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Gigi Perreau, Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 26264
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1008314D
UPC: 027616923455
EAN: 0027616923455
ASIN: B0007O38XK
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1956
Release Date: May 17, 2005
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Product Description
Two goofballs try to run a beaten-down old amusement park. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/17/2005 Starring: Bud Abbott Gigi Perreau Run time: 79 minutes Rating: Nr
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 Fabulous for Die Hard Fans! March 21, 2008
B. Friesen (North Dakota USA)
We love all the works of Abbot and Costello...so don't miss out on any one of them....collect them all! We are getting replacements on DVD for all the VHS copies we had....what great fun and laughs even the younger generation is getting into this series!
A&C Meet The Mob February 22, 2007
John Liosatos (Crook County, IL United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
That should have been a subtitle title for Dance With Me Henry. While it's not their best work, a complicated plot which gets more complicated as it goes along, Henry is enjoyable if you like mob films. This represents a change in the direction of A&C films, with Lou playing Lou Henry, a play-it-straight, intelligent proprietor of Kiddyland amusement park. All he wants is to keep the Welfare Board from declaring him an unfit parent and take away his two adopted children. Bud plays Bud Flick, the semi-shady friend of Henry, who runs up a $20,000 gambling debt and gets in hot water with the mob. Flick uses Henry's generosity and friendship to bail himself out, with disastrous results, even leading to Lou being wrongly arrested for the murder of the D.A.
As this was to be their last film together, the change in character was used to try something new. While Henry will often remind the viewer of a 1950s mafia film, such as The Untouchables, there are plenty of laughs along the way. For instance, the very last chaotic scene in the amusement park contains plenty of slapstick humor. Also, the slick talking Flick manages to confuse Costello into disagreeable situations, as in many of their earlier films. Granted this is an atypical A&C movie, but any A&C fan will appreciate the boys' work here. As with other atypical A&C films, such as Time of Their Lives and Little Giant, Dance With Me Henry includes some of their most creative work.
 A SAD,SAD FINAL FILM January 15, 2007
Darren J. Patalon
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
ABBOTT & COESTELLO'S LAST FILM AS A COMEDY TEAM "DANCE WITH ME HENRY",IS
A SAD FINAL ENTRY. I BOUGHT THIS FILM ALLREADY KNOWING THAT THIS IS FAR
FROM EVER BEING A CLASSIC,BUT I AM A COLLECTOR AND A FAN OF THE OLD COMEDY
TEAMS OF YESTERYEARS.THIS FILM IS A MUST FOR ANY SERIOUS FAN.SURPRISINGLY
A BIG MAJORITY OF BUD & LOU'S FILM HISTORY IS AVAILABLE ON DVD,WHERE AS
OTHER GREAT COMEDY TEAMS ARE HARD TO LOCATE AND IT IS VERY RARE TO COMPLETE AN ENTIRE COLLECTION."DANCE WITH ME HENRY",FAILS TO DELIVER SEN-
TIMENT OR COMEDY,BUD & LOU LOOK TIRED AND BOTH OF THEM CRAWL FROM ONE
SCENE TO ANOTHER.IN MY OPION THE DIRECTOR HAD NO SENSE OF CONNECTION ON
HOW TOO CONSTRUCT A FILM.BUT ALSO BUD & LOU SEEM UNCARING,THEY REALLY
DON'T TRY TO LIFT THE HEAVIENESS OF A FILM THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIGHT AND
LOOSE.EVEN UNDER POOR DIRECTION ABBOTT & COSTELLO COULD'VE SPARKED SOME
ENERGY INTO THEIR SWANSONG.
 Final film, better than many of A/C's December 23, 2006
Phil S. (USA)
Here was another chance for Lou Costello to show his acting talents - a prior effort, The Time Of Their Lives - was also an impressive performance. Too bad he never got to play Mayor LaGuardia on film, as I've read. He's capable of generating much pathos, where an actor noted for frantic slapstick might exaggerate, or be overly sentimental. His role as the proprietor of "Kiddyland", a nearby amusement park convenient to the kids he's taken in, to the concern of a local social worker, gives him room to show what he can do. His buddy Bud is also effective, in a more, shall we say "humbling role", compared to the affable con-man he usually plays.
What's really wrong in this oddball but fun affair is the ill-conceived, overdrawn plot involving Bud's gambling habits and his less than honorable cohorts who occasionally supply his funding. The mix of kids and crooks is at times very awkward - in fact there's a very bizarre scene in which a young girl witnesses a murder at the park, later to be questioned. The victim is the actor who played the Inspector on "The Adventures Of Superman" TV series, interestingly enough, also directed by Charles Barton. It was very poor scripting not to provide for this character to appear at the end, recovered from the gunshot.
I enjoyed the use of the 1950s classic, "Dance With Me, Henry" (of course based upon the slightly risque "Work With Me Annie" by Hank Ballard And The Midnighters); theres a nice scene where the children dance to the General Audience version at Kiddyland when the bad guys are vanquished.
Interesting to say the least July 9, 2005
Padre Pete (Alexandria, VA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Their last film, uses the team in non-comedic team roles. Not the first time, but it really stands out here. For an A&C fan, worth looking to see the changes that they went through as a team and all. Mostly this is a Lou vehicle, worth a look, but certainly not a classic.
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