Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man(1951)
04/03/1951 (US)Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction1h 23m
6.4
"It's all NEW and a RIOT too!"
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As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
Charles Lamont
Director
Robert Lees
Screenplay
Frederic I. Rinaldo
Screenplay
John Grant
Screenplay
Hugh Wedlock Jr.
Story
Howard Snyder
Story
H. G. Wells
Story
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A review by John Chard
8.0
Written on March 4, 2020
Certainly one of the best in the series.
Our intrepid bumbling duo deliver the goods in one of the better offerings on their considerable CV. Here they are freshly qualified Private Investigators thrust into a murder investigation with an invisible man. That alone should tell you that the fun flows at a very decent clip, so with that I just need to say that some of the sequences here are comedy gold. Like a scene at a restaurant that is excellent, or Costello pretending to work the ball in the gym, and a final reel of a boxing match that really gets the laughter flowing. Watching these guys act as if with a real invisible man is wonderful, and of course the effects team also deserve praise for doing such a damn fine job with the invisible man of the piece.
Not quite as good as...Meet Frankenstein, but it's darn near close. 8/10
Our intrepid bumbling duo deliver the goods in one of the better offerings on their considerable CV. Here they are freshly qualified Private Investigators thrust into a murder investigation with an invisible man. That alone should tell you that the fun flows at a very decent clip, so with that I just need to say that some of the sequences here are comedy gold. Like a scene at a restaurant that is excellent, or Costello pretending to work the ball in the gym, and a final reel of a boxing match that really gets the laughter flowing. Watching these guys act as if with a real invisible man is wonderful, and of course the effects team also deserve praise for doing such a damn fine job with the invisible man of the piece.
Not quite as good as...Meet Frankenstein, but it's darn near close. 8/10
