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Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
John Daheim
- Rocky Hanlon
- (as John Day)
Walter F. Appler
- Professor Dugan
- (uncredited)
Howard Banks
- Officer
- (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
- Sneaky
- (uncredited)
Richard Bartell
- Bald Man
- (uncredited)
Phil Bloom
- Fight Spectator
- (uncredited)
John Breen
- Trainer
- (uncredited)
Milt Bronson
- Ring Announcer
- (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
- Man at Bar
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe picture in Dr. Gray's laboratory of Griffin, the inventor of the invisibility serum, is a photo of Claude Rains, who played the title role in "The Invisible Man (1933)."
- GoofsThe boxer, Tommy Nelson, is invisible and in order to stay this way he must not wear ANY clothes. This would include shoes. And yet when he walks across the mat in the boxing gym his footprints are very apparent, but as if he he wearing shoes and not bare feet.
- Quotes
Lou Francis: [about graduating] This is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, how did I ever graduate?
Bud Alexander: [whispering] I slipped the guy twenty bucks. Now keep quiet.
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film inside DVD "IL CERVELLO DI FRANKENSTEIN", distributed by DNA Srl (2 Films on a single DVD). The film has been re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 100 Years of Horror: Phantoms (1996)
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worth seeing (pun intended)
In "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man", detectives Bud Alexander (Bud Abbott) and Lou Francis (Lou Costello) have to protect a man framed for murder. This becomes proportionally easier once the man gives himself an invisibility serum. Some of the best scenes are when Lou watches him disappear, when a cop sees (or, rather, doesn't see) the man driving a car, and even a scene where Lou accidentally puts a bunch of people to sleep. The end scene is also a shocker.
These movies sometimes seem like they were just excuses for everyone to goof off. If so, then they did well. This one was also helped by the fact that it didn't have any songs, which sometimes weakened A & C's movies. Really funny.
I guess that I'll have to see this again, now that I know that Fred Mertz appeared in it.
These movies sometimes seem like they were just excuses for everyone to goof off. If so, then they did well. This one was also helped by the fact that it didn't have any songs, which sometimes weakened A & C's movies. Really funny.
I guess that I'll have to see this again, now that I know that Fred Mertz appeared in it.
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- lee_eisenberg
- Aug 2, 2005
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- Meet the Invisible Man
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- $627,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) officially released in India in English?
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