Happy Thursday, everyone! I'm traveling this morning and will have a full column up later today, but just wanted to give you a taste of the whacky stuff to come.
Oh man, this movie is goofy, even goofier than the Invisible Woman one. Costello ends up with a friend who is a boxer who gets injected with the invisibility serum and ends up in the ring against a local champ while the invisible boxer takes the swings for him. The whole movie is an excuse for Abbot and Costello to react to invisibility gags and while for them this apparently really on the tail end of their partnership it’s still a lot of fun. In particular, I loved a bit where a psychiatrist who thinks Costello is nuts tries to hypnotize him and Costello accidentally hypnotizes him. A cop comes to investigate and also gets hypnotized. Cut to a scene with Abbot and when they cut back, the office has fully ten hypnotized people lying around, a visual gag that had me laughing so hard I scared the cats.
High drama this isn’t, but I had a ton of fun with this one. Hopefully this will continue in two weeks with The Invisible Man Appears!
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