Reviews for The Time of Their Lives
Review - Time of Their Lives, The
Horatio is a tinker with a letter of introduction from George Washington. Horatio is in love with a servant girl and plans to elope. Cuthbert, the butler, also loves the servant girl and locks Horatio in a trunk. Melody is a lady engaged to the wealthy Tom Danbury during the Revolutionary War. Melody discovers that Tom is plotting with Benedict Arnold. (Without being seen, Tom gets Horatio’s letter from Washington and hides it in a clock.) Melody rescues Horatio and they set out to warn Washington’s army. Some American soldiers see them fleeing Tom’s house and shoot them, throwing them in the well as traitors and condemning them to the grounds until and unless their loyalty is proven. The American troops burn down the house.
160 years pass. Sheldon has the house rebuilt and finds all the original furniture. Horatio and Melody determine to find the letter that will prove their innocence. Sheldon spends a night at the house with his fiancé, her girlfriend and the psychiatrist Ralph who is a descendent of Cuthbert. Horatio notices the resemblance between Ralph and his old nemesis Cuthbert and haunts him. At first, the others think Ralph is crazy, but eventually they all see enough evidence of ghosts to believe. The housekeeper holds a séance and the group find out who the ghosts are and all about the letter. Tom’s ghost shows up long enough to reveal the secret compartment in the clock, but Sheldon says he gave the original clock to a museum.
Ralph goes to the museum and steals the clock. The police follow him to the house. Mayhem ensues as everyone chases everyone. Finally the secret compartment is discovered and the letter is found, freeing Horatio and Melody. She gets back together in the afterlife with Tom who has apologized for his disloyalty. Horatio meets his servant girl at the gates of heaven but can’t get in because it’s closed for Washington’s birthday.
Very stupid, of course, but with some laugh-out-loud funny parts. One of the very few Abbott and Costello movies in which the two didn’t act as a a pair and in which Abbott was the brunt of the abuse.
160 years pass. Sheldon has the house rebuilt and finds all the original furniture. Horatio and Melody determine to find the letter that will prove their innocence. Sheldon spends a night at the house with his fiancé, her girlfriend and the psychiatrist Ralph who is a descendent of Cuthbert. Horatio notices the resemblance between Ralph and his old nemesis Cuthbert and haunts him. At first, the others think Ralph is crazy, but eventually they all see enough evidence of ghosts to believe. The housekeeper holds a séance and the group find out who the ghosts are and all about the letter. Tom’s ghost shows up long enough to reveal the secret compartment in the clock, but Sheldon says he gave the original clock to a museum.
Ralph goes to the museum and steals the clock. The police follow him to the house. Mayhem ensues as everyone chases everyone. Finally the secret compartment is discovered and the letter is found, freeing Horatio and Melody. She gets back together in the afterlife with Tom who has apologized for his disloyalty. Horatio meets his servant girl at the gates of heaven but can’t get in because it’s closed for Washington’s birthday.
Very stupid, of course, but with some laugh-out-loud funny parts. One of the very few Abbott and Costello movies in which the two didn’t act as a a pair and in which Abbott was the brunt of the abuse.
Reviewed by Roger on 2008-08-06 12:04:26