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.
Mr. Dinkel / Mr. Dinkelpuss
Bud Abbott
Jack / Jack Strong
Lou Costello
Sgt. Riley / The Giant
Buddy Baer
Receptionist / Polly
Dorothy Ford
Mrs. Strong
Barbara Brown
Donald Larkin
David Stollery
The King
William Farnum
Eloise Larkin / Princess Eloise (Darlene)
Shaye Cogan
Arthur / Prince Arthur / Troubador
James Alexander
Dancer
Johnny Conrad
Mrs. Mergatroyd (uncredited)
Almira Sessions
Farm Animals (uncredited) (voice)
Mel Blanc
Patrick the Harp (uncredited)
Arthur Shields