Mexican Hayride (1948)
With Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein being such a huge success at the box office, you'd think that Universal would try to just cash in on that right away and make even more crossovers between Abbott and Costello and the Universal Monsters. Actually, that wasn't the case, at least, not yet. Instead, they chose to adapt a Cole Porter musical, Mexican Hayride . Add this to the fact that Charles Barton, director of The Noose Hangs High and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein , was set to helm this project, Universal must have thought they had all the elements to succeed. They did not. Costello is Joe Bascomb, a man from Iowa who's on the run after getting involved in an oil stock scam set up by Harry Lambert (Abbott). After another misunderstanding involving his ex-girlfriend, Mary (Virginia Grey), Bascomb finds himself travelling through Mexico as the United States's "goodwill ambassador" under the new name of Humphrey Fish. Meanwhile, two cops (Tom Po