Lum and Abner Abroad

Lum and Abner Abroad (1956)

The "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves, and take on posh society in Monte Carlo.

Date of release
1956-02-04
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Comedy
Director
James V. Kern

Casting

Interesting facts

Lum and Abner Abroad is a 1956 European comedy film directed by James V. Kern and written by Carl Herzinger. The film stars Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Jill Alis, Lila Audres, Gene Gary, and Chris Peters. The film was released on January 1, 1956.

Background

Lum and Abner Abroad was originally conceived as a television series and a comeback vehicle for the Lum and Abner characters. The duo had appeared in six feature films and a long-running radio series between 1935 and 1950, but other than a short-lived radio revival in 1953, had not appeared in media since then.

The six previous Lum and Abner features, produced independently in Hollywood, followed the radio format of Lum and Abner as residents of "Pine Ridge, Arkansas." Lum and Abner Abroad, however, was a European production, with filming and accommodations based in Yugoslavia. According to co-star Chester Lauck, the Yugoslavian crew was so inexperienced and the conditions so primitive that director James V.

Had Lum and Abner Abroad been sponsored as a series, the three shorts would have constituted three half-hour episodes of the series. As the series was not picked up, they were instead hastily strung together and released as a feature film. Although the international actors spoke English and were not dubbed, the finished film lacked the usual Hollywood production polish, and no major distributor would release it.

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