Jack and the Beanstalk

Name: Jack and the Beanstalk
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Released: 1952-04-07T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 5.71

About Jack and the Beanstalk

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.

Jean Yarbrough's Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1952 comedy fantasy film. Released in April 1952, it runs 78 minutes.

The film is filed under sword fight, dancing, singing, and based on fairy tale.

Bud Abbott appears as Mr. Dinkel, Lou Costello as Jack, Buddy Baer as Sgt. Riley, and Dorothy Ford as Receptionist. The screenplay is by Nathaniel Curtis. In the United States it streams on Brew, Eternal Family, and FlixFling.

Into the Woods, Wicked, and Fun and Fancy Free make useful companions to Jack and the Beanstalk, all filed under beanstalk and musical. TMDB voters put it at 5.7 out of 10 across 62 votes and it carries a NR rating.