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★ 5.7/10 TMDB
1952-04-07
78 min
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.
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Bud Abbott
Mr. Dinkel / Mr. Dinkelpuss
Lou Costello
Jack / Jack Strong
Buddy Baer
Sgt. Riley / The Giant
Dorothy Ford
Receptionist / Polly
Barbara Brown
Mrs. Strong
David Stollery
Donald Larkin
William Farnum
The King
Shaye Cogan
Eloise Larkin / Princess Eloise (Darlene)
James Alexander
Arthur / Prince Arthur / Troubador
Johnny Conrad
Dancer
Almira Sessions
Mrs. Mergatroyd (uncredited)
Arthur Shields
Patrick the Harp (voice, uncredited)
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