Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man

[Zone Fighter]

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet The Invisible Man (1951)

Starring
Bud Abbott as Bud Alexander
Lou Costello as Lou Francis
Nancy Guild as Helen Gray
Arthur Franz as Tommy Nelson
Adele Jergens as Boots Marsden
Sheldon Leonard as Morgan
William Frawley as Det. Roberts
Gavin Muir as Dr. Philip Gray
Sam Balter as Radio announcer (voice)
John Day as Rocky Hanlon
Paul Maxey as Dr. James C. Turner

Alexander was Bud Abbott's real middle name
Francis was Lou Costello's real middle name

William Frawley was probably best known for playing Fred Mertz in "I Love Lucy".

Bud Alexander and Lou Francis have just graduated from Dugan's Detective school. They hope their first case is a robbery or even a murder. They get their wish when boxer Tommy Nelson shows up at the office. Altough Lou Francis is supposed to be the dumb one he's first to recognise the stranger as the man wanted by the police for murder and the first to realise that Tommy didn't do it. Bud Alexander keeps trying to turn Tommy in for the reward but keeps failing because he can't see Tommy who used the late Dr. Griffins forumla to make himself invisible.

Tommy is accused of murdering his manager. He eventually convinces Bud and Lou to help prove his innocence by setting Lou up as a boxer. Of course its the invisible Tommy who really does the fighting.

I thought this was a good addition to the invisible man movie, despite some simularities with The Invisible Man Returns (1940).

[Xenorama ™]

i remember enjoying it a lot when i first saw it, but that's been quite some time ago. good effects and i enjoyed Lou being a boxer.

[amphiboid]

David S. Horsley's effects hold up very well. I believe Horsley assisted Fulton on a number of the Invisible Man sequels.

I especially liked the scene in which Arthur Franz disappears--everything vanishes quickly except for his teeth, and then those fade slowly away, as he laughs maniacally. Very bizarre and creepy image!