"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"
A Brief Synopsis

Bumbling railroad shipping clerks Chick and Wilbur deliver two crates to the McDougal House of Horrors: one contains the coffin of Count Dracula and the other contains Frankenstein's Monster. Dracula revives at sunset and escapes with the Monster, using his vampiric mesmerism to prevent Wilbur from sounding an alarm. Chick and Wilbur are blamed for the disappearance and are arrested and fired. They're bailed out by a "mysterious woman" whom they take to be Wilbur's girlfriend Doctor Mornay.

Dracula had himself and the Monster brought to America so that surgeon Dr. Sandra Mornay could operate on the Monster and replace its brain with one more easily controlled. Doctor Mornay's earlier experiments had earned her the unwelcome attention of European police, as well as Count Dracula's. Dr. Mornay had read Dr. Frankenstein's notes and feels confident that she can perform the operation, and she even has a prime candidate: Wilbur, whom she has been courting.

Doctor Mornay invites Chick and Wilbur to her remote island home (actually a small castle complete with dungeon, and, of course, a well supplied laboratory and surgery), but Joan Raymond invites herself along, as it was she who had bailed out Chick and Wilbur. They meet Doctor Stevens, Doctor Mornay's assistant, who answers the door, as well as the Count himself, posing as a European doctor while Doctor Stevens is at the castle. Doctor Mornay and Count Dracula plan on getting rid of him soon but never do so.

That evening, Doctor Mornay plans on taking Wilbur and the others to a costume ball. While getting dressed, a snooping Joan discovers Doctor Mornay's copy of Doctor Frankenstein's notes, while Doctor Mornay discovers that Joan is an investigator for an insurnace company.

Count Dracula is annoyed at Doctor Mornay's impertinance, and orders Mornay to start the operation. She refuses, telling the Count that he can read the notes and perform the operation himself and stating that she has just a strong will as the Count. "Are you sure?" he asks ominously, then commands her to look into his eyes. She initially does not, but then she glances towards him, and is then put under the mesmeric spell of the great vampire.

	"Look into my eyes," says Count Dracula, "... look."
	"deep ... "
	And Doctor Mornay's will is not as strong as the Count's as she obviously cannot resist him.

At the costume ball, Count Dracula and Doctor Mornay arrive, with Mornay still entranced. Dracula gives her her orders, which she repeats in a monotone. In order to get Wilbur to return to the island, Dr. Mornay gets him alone and attempts to seduce him; when that fails, she tries to mesmerize him, but he suddenly realizes what she has become (by seeing a bat flapping in the depths of her eyes) and flees into the woods instead.

At the same time, another guest at the ball has been attacked, and Chick is accused because he was carrying a wolf mask. Actually it was Talbot, who had turned into the Wolfman. Chick also flees, and a mob begins chasing him. The two chases merge at Doctor Mornay's hidden boat, where Wilbur discovers Joan, who is sitting in the boat in a deep trance. When he turns to flee, Count Dracula appears and entrances Wilbur into a swoon, then turns and entrances Chick into a swoon, too. Count Dracula and Doctor Mornay flee with the entranced Joan and Wilbur.

In the morning, Chick and Talbot awaken, still being hunted. They can't get past the search parties until dark, but they know that Dracula will have to wait until night to begin the operation.

In the dungeons below the laboratory, Wilbur is imprisoned in stocks while Doctor Mornay stands entranced and attentive beside Count Dracula's casket. At nightfall, he arises and commands Doctor Mornay to start preparing for the operation. Chick and Talbot row out to the laboratory, and rescue Wilbur and Doctor Stevens, but when they try to escape, they realize that Joan is still within. Chick, Doctor Stevens, and Talbot return to the laboratory to rescue her while Wilbur stays with the boat to get it started. Count Dracula discovers that Wilbur has escaped, and hypnotically calls him back into the laboratory. When the others return with a still-entranced Joan, they find that he's missing, and Chick and Talbot have to go back into the laboratory again.

Wilbur is wheeled into the laboratory / surgery on a gurney, and Doctor Mornay is preparing to operate, just as Chick and Talbot enter. Doctor Mornay is knocked unconscious and Chick attempts to fight off Dracula, while Talbot frees Wilbur. However, the full moon transforms Talbot into the Wolfman, and he rampages through the castle. His rampage frees the Monster, who also begins to rampage through the castle, chasing Chick and Wilbur as Count Dracula is attacked by the Wolfman. The only way to control the Monster is through Dracula's mesmeric stare, which Lou mimics using a tablecloth as an improvised cape.

His plan a shambles, Count Dracula tries to turn into a bat and flee, but the Wolfman catches him just Dracula ducks out a window, and together they fall to the rocks below. With Dracula's apparent death, Joan is released from her trance. The Monster chases Chick and Wilbur to the dock, just as Mr. McDougal and the insurance representative arrive. McDougal and the representative are tossed into the water as Chick and Wilbur try to escape in a boat. With the Monster throwing barrells at the escaping Chick and Wilbur, Doctor Stevens and Joan set the dock on fire, and the Monster tries to escape thorugh the flames but falls through the burning dock into the water below.

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