Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to our midweek bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets. Today our month of trick-or-treating comedies comes to a close with

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The duo found some of their biggest successes on screen when they faced off against the classic Universal

Monsters in Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. And today, with Halloween just a few days away, we'll hear the

radio shows where they welcomed some of Hollywood's biggest horror stars to

their microphone. The film, which was released in 1948, saw the

return of Universal's Big Three, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Wolfman, none of whom had been seen in a universal film

since 1945's crossover, House of Dracula.

And it reunited the stars who had so memorably played those monsters.

Bella Legossi is Dracula, Glen Strange as the creature, and Lon Cheney Jr. is Larry Talbot, cursed by moonlight to transform

into the wolfman.

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein marked the only time Bella Legossi played Dracula after the legendary

1931 film.

He'd played and would go on to play other vampires on screen, but he only played the King of them all in these two films.

When presented with the idea, Lou Costello wasn't interested in the Monster Mash. He said his five-year-old daughter could have written

a better script. But the addition of Charles Barton, who helmed several of the duo's best

movies, got him on board and by all accounts Costello

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