Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1952 American
family comedy film starring the comedy team of
Abbott and Costello. It is a comic revision of the classic
Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale.
Plot
Mr. Dinkle and Jack (
Abbott and Costello) look for work at the Cosman Employment Agency. Jack makes advances to Cosman employee Polly (
Dorothy Ford), but he is thwarted by the arrival of her boyfriend, a towering police officer (
Buddy Baer). Polly assigns Dinkle and Jack to
babysit for Eloise Larkin's brother and infant sister, while Eloise (
Shaye Cogan) and her fiancé (James Alexander) are out for the evening. The babysitting duties are complicated by the fact that Donald (
David Stollery) is something of a
prodigy,
as well as a self-proclaimed "problem child". The dull-witted Jack is
soon outclassed by the child, and an attempt to lull the boy to sleep by
reading the fairy tale
Jack and the Beanstalk
(Jack's "favorite novel") aloud fails when Jack stumbles over the
larger words. Bemused by Jack's incompetence, Donald reads the story
instead--a role-reversal made complete when Jack falls asleep as Donald
reads. In his slumber, Jack dreams that he is the young Jack of the
fairy tale.
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