

07/04/1952
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.

Bud Abbott
as Mr. Dinkel / Mr. Dinkelpuss

Lou Costello
as Jack / Jack Strong

Buddy Baer
as Sgt. Riley / The Giant

Dorothy Ford
as Receptionist / Polly

Barbara Brown
as Mrs. Strong

David Stollery
as Donald Larkin

William Farnum
as The King

Shaye Cogan
as Eloise Larkin / Princess Eloise (Darlene)

James Alexander
as Arthur / Prince Arthur / Troubador

Johnny Conrad
as Dancer

Almira Sessions
as Mrs. Mergatroyd (uncredited)

Mel Blanc
as Farm Animals (uncredited) (voice)

Arthur Shields
as Patrick the Harp (uncredited)
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