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Released February 02, 1955
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Universal
79 min. (Feature Film)

Set in the silent era of film, a crook named Gorman and his wife con Harry Pierce and Willie Piper (Bud Abbott & Lou Costello) out of $5,000, selling them a movie studio... the Thomas Edison Studio in Orange, New Jersey. Bud and Lou track Gorman cross-country to Hollywood, where he has assumed the identity of a European director at Snavely Pictures. Bumbling and circumstances result in Pierce & Piper becoming Snavely's new slapstick comedy team, but still hot on Gorman's trail, who has a scheme to steal the Snavely Studio's payroll.

Joe Besser cameos in a very brief walk-on role.

One of Shemp's 1930s costars at Vitaphone, Roscoe Ates, has a recurring role as a stuttering hick, travelling cross-country with his horse and wagon. Shemp's 1940s costar at Monogram (and nightclub business partner), ex-boxer Maxie Rosenbloom, appears as Gorman's blackmailing henchman.

The young girl at the theater box office is played by Carole Costello, Lou's middle daughter.

The Kops were played by Universal stuntmen, under the consultation of Keystone Studio's famous producer/director Mack Sennett, who also portrays himself in a cameo.

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Bud Abbott
Harry Pierce

Lou Costello
Willie Piper

Fred Clark
Joseph Gorman / Sergei Toumanoff

Lynn Bari
Leota Van Cleef

Frank Wilcox
Rudolph Snavely

Harry Tyler
Piano player

Bobby Jellison
Movie patron

Joe Gilbert
Movie patron

William H. O'Brien
Movie patron

Marjorie Bennett
Fat woman in theater

Frank Hagney
Theater usher

Carole Costello
Theater cashier

Billy Varga
Tough guy outside theater

Colin Campbell
Edison Studios guard

Roscoe Ates
Wagon driver

Don House
Motorcycle policeman

Forrest Burns
Motorcycle policeman

Jack Stoney
1st brakeman

Henry Kulky
2nd brakeman

Sam Flint
Railroad conductor

Ralph T. Brooks
2nd cameraman

Allan Ray
Assistant Director

Hank Mann
Propman

Murray Leonard
Studio guard

Heinie Conklin
Comic with bathing beauties

Beverly Snyder
Mack Sennett bathing beauty

Barbara Jones
Mack Sennett bathing beauty

Margaret Eubank
Mack Sennett bathing beauty

Dorothy Martinson
Mack Sennett bathing beauty

Peggy Gordon
Mack Sennett bathing beauty

Doris Barton
Mack Sennett bathing beauty

Paul Dubov
Mr. Jason

Jack Daly
Burglar

Joe Devlin
Policeman at Tomanoff's house

Charles Dorety
Watermelon peddler

Slim Gaut
Drunk roadside farmer

Byron Keith
Policeman arresting Gorman


John Grant
Screenplay

Reggie Lanning
Director of Photography

Edward Curtiss
Film Editor

Bill Newberry
Art Director

Alexander Golitzen
Art Director

Julia Heron
Set Decoration

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Joseph Gershenson
Musical Director

Joan St. Oegger
Hair Stylist

William Holland
Assistant Director

Tom Shaw
2nd Unit Director



















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