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The basic plot of Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man is as follows: Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud Abbott and Lou Costello investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping the real killer, gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help.
It is a classic Abbott and Costello film, with very good interraction between Bud and Lou, a wonderful boxing scene with Lou Costello in the boxing ring, a police scientist attempting to hypnotize Lou—only to have Lou hypnotize him instead, and many other good bits as well. It’s a very funny film, with a good heart, and none of the musical interludes that some Abbott and Costello fans don’t care to have. Well done, and highly recommended.

Trivia for Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

This was originally intended to be a straight film in the Invisible Man series. After the huge grosses from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), the script was rewritten to make it another thrill comedy with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. As it happened, Bud Abbott & Lou Costello met an invisible man in the earlier film, too, but it was a different character (voiced by Vincent Price).
The last names of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s characters, Bud Alexander and Lou Francis, are actually their real middle names.
The 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).

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