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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 last names of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's characters, Bud Alexander and Lou Francis, are actually their real middle names.
- 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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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
Not quite as good as...Meet Frankenstein, but it's darn near close. 8/10
- hitchcockthelegend
- Mar 3, 2008
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- Also known as
- Meet the Invisible Man
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- Budget
- $627,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 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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