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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0047897808623
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: October 22, 1992
Running Time: 77 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 09, 1942
Sales Rank: 1339
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Colonel J.R. Andrews is head of a radio broadcasting company. A new writer is hired for a murder mystery show. Chick and Mervin are working in a drugstore, and put on their comic skits. The film shows how a radio mystery show is produced. But Colonel Andrews is murdered by a clever plot. There is another skit on the use of words that sound alike. [The jokes show the attitudes of those days.] Can life imitate art? Misunderstandings provide comedy. Strange events cause Mervin to look for clues in a ... Read More
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WHO DONE IT?
Universal Pictures
Release Date: November 9, 1942
Runtime: 77 min.
Director:
Erle C. Kenton
Producer:
Alex Gottlieb
Writing Credits:
John Grant
Edmund Joseph
Stanley Roberts
Cast:
Bud Abbott......Chick Larkin/Voice of himself on radio ... Read More
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This one doesn't get mentioned as much as "Hold That Ghost" but it is one of their best. Chick (Bud) and Mervin (Lou) are working in a diner but trying to break into radio as writers for the mystery show "Murder at Midnight." There is just one great gag and skit followed by another, and Bud and Lou turn every situation in this great and well-written comedy into utter chaos. In technical terms, this movie is a hoot!
The very pretty Louise Albritton trys to help Patrick Knowles break into ... Read More
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Really funny and fast moving A&C. Including one of their best routines "Alexander 2-2" (with Lou trying to make a phone call). Fun rooftop chase and finale.
(And I have to say, I never really got the comparison to Curly of the Three Stooges mentioned in other reviews. There are some similarities-- both being overweight and childlike, but I think both comics are hysterical and uniquely different. Lou Costello is more of "the little man"lost in a world he doesn't always comprehend, the victim of ... Read More
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Along with A&C Meet Frankenstein and The Time of Their Lives, this is one of my favorite A&C films. Don Porter is great as the villian. One of the first films where Costello and a cop are constantly fighting (pre-Mike the cop).
Some of the classic routines : Operator give me Alexander 2222 and Volts are Watt?
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