The Time of Their Lives

The Time of Their Lives is a 1946 American film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

The time is 1780, and Horatio Prim Lou Costello is a master tinker. He travels to the estate of Tom Danbury Jess Barker with a letter of commendation from Gen. George Washington. He plans to present this letter to Danbury, hoping it will persuade the wealthy man to let Horatio marry Nora OLeary Anne Gillis, Danburys housemaid. Unfortunately, Horatio has a romantic rival in Cuthbert Greenway Bud Abbott, Danburys butler, who is very fond of Nora and intends to prevent Horatio from presenting his letter, which Nora has taken for safekeeping.Nora happens to overhear Danbury discussing his part in Benedict Arnolds plot Danbury captures her, and hides the commendation letter in a secret compartment of the mantel clock. Danburys fiance, Melody Allen Marjorie Reynolds, witnesses the situation and sets off on horseback to warn Washingtons army. She enlists Horatios help, but the two of them are mistakenly shot by American troops who are arriving at the estate. Their bodies are thrown down a well, and the soldiers ransack the house and burn it to the ground. The souls of the two unfortunates are condemned to remain on the estate until their innocence can be proved to the world. ........

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