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Released August 07, 1941
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
86 min. (Feature Film)

Chuck Murray (Bud Abbott) & Ferdy Jones (Lou Costello) are working as waiters in a nightclub, but quickly lose their jobs and go back to working at a service station. While serving a customer, gangster 'Moose' Matson, they end up in the back seat of his car when the police arrive and give chase. 'Moose' is killed by the police, but he leaves a will bequeathing an old country inn to whomever was with him when he died, so of course Ferdy and Chuck inherit.

Unknown to them, though, members of Matson's gang are looking for his stolen loot, which 'Moose' always insisted was "in his head." The boys are taken to the inn by Charlie Smith (Marc Lawrence), one of the gangsters, in a private bus. The bus driver strands the boys, along with other passengers Dr. Jackson, Norma Lind and Camille Brewster (Joan Davis). Charlie disappears, and while searching for him, the rest discover that the inn was once a speakeasy and gambling den, cleverly disquised in the event of raids. Bodies keep appearing and disappearing, and Lou is bedeviled by disappearing gambling tables, while the gangsters search for the missing loot.

Shemp Howard has a brief role as a frustrated soda jerk in the second reel.

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Avg. Rating: [8.86/10]
 
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Bud Abbott
Chuck Murray

Lou Costello
Ferdinand 'Ferdie' Jones

Joan Davis
Camille Brewster

Richard Carlson
Dr. Duncan 'Doc' Jackson

Evelyn Ankers
Norma Lind

Marc Lawrence
Charlie Smith

Russell Hicks
Mr. Bannister

Thurston Hall
Alderman Birch

Janet Shaw
Alderman's girlfriend

William Ruhl
Angry nightclub patron

Barry Norton
Nightclub patron

Ralph T. Brooks
Nightclub patron

Larry Steers
Nightclub patron

Dick Gordon
Nightclub patron

Joe Gilbert
Nightclub patron

Jeanne Blanche
Pretty girl

Hans Herbert
Gas station customer

Charles Hamilton
Policeman driver

Shemp Howard
Soda jerk

Milt Parsons
Harry Hoskins

Don Terry
Strangler

Edward Pawley
High Collar

Frank Penny
Snake Eyes

Jeffrey Sayre
'Aurora' chorus boy

Bobby Barber
Waiter, scene deleted

Kay, Kay & Katya
Dancers, scene deleted

Howard C. Hickman
Judge, scene deleted

Stanley Smith
Court clerk, scene deleted

Spencer Charters
Storekeeper, scene deleted

Russ Powell
Chess player, scene deleted

Paul Fix
Lefty, scene deleted

Paul Newlan
Big Fink, scene deleted

Joseph La Cava
Little Fink, scene deleted

Madge Crane
Mrs. Giltedge, scene deleted

William Forrest
State Trooper, scene deleted

Charles Smith
Boy, scene deleted


Arthur Lubin
Director

Burt Kelly
Associate Producer

Glenn Tryon
Associate Producer

Frederic I. Rinaldo
Story and Screenplay

Robert Lees
Story and Screenplay

John Grant
Screenplay

Elwood Bredell
Director of Photography

Philip Cahn
Film Editor

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Harold MacArthur
Associate Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor

Willam R. Fox
Sound Technician

Hans J. Salter
Musical Director

Charles Previn
Musical Director

Charles Henderson
Music and Lyrics

Ted Lewis
Music and Lyrics

Milton S. Rosen
Music and Lyrics

Dave Dreyer
Music and Lyrics

Harold Adamson
Music and Lyrics

Gil Valle
Assistant Director

John Rawlins
2nd Unit Director

Nick Castle
Choreographer

Joan Hathaway
Dialogue Director



















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