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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Abbot and Costello Meet the Invisible Man Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Charles Lamont
Produced by	Howard Christie
Written by	Frederic I. Rinaldo John Grant Robert Lees Hugh Wedlock Jr Howard Snyder
Starring	Bud Abbott Lou Costello Nancy Guild Arthur Franz
Music by	Erich Zeisl
Cinematography	George Robinson
Editing by	Virgil Vogel
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	March 19, 1951
Running time	82 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$697,000
Preceded by	Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Followed by	Comin' Round The Mountain (1951)
IMDb profile

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (also known as Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (full screen title)) is a 1951 comedy horror film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Nancy Guild.

The films follows the misadventures of Lou Francis and Bud Alexander, two private detectives investigating the murder of a boxing promoter. It forms part of a series in which the duo meet classic characters from Universal's stable including Frankenstein, the Mummy and the Keystone Kops.

The movie was filmed between October 3 and November 6, 1950. It was released on DVD on August 3 2004.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Trivia 3 Special Effects 4 Cast 5 DVD Release 6 External links

Lou Francis (Lou Costello) and Bud Alexander (Bud Abbott) have just graduated from a private detective school. Tommy Nelson (Arthur Franz), a middleweight boxer, comes to them with their first case. Tommy recently escaped from jail, after being accused of murdering his manager, and asks Bud and Lou to go with him to visit his fiancée, Helen Gray (Nancy Guild). He wanted her uncle, Dr. Philip Gray (Gavin Muir) to inject him with a serum he has developed which will make him invisible. He hopes to use this new found invisibility to investigate his mananger's murder and prove his innocence. Dr. Gray refuses, saying that the serum is still unstable, but as the police arrive Tommy injects himself with it. Detective Roberts (William Frawley) questions Dr. Gray and Helen while Bud and Lou search for Tommy.

Helen and Tommy convince Bud and Lou to help them seek the real killer, and Tommy explains why the murder happened. It seems that he was asked to throw a fight and he refused and knocked the opponent out. Morgan (Sheldon Leonard), the promoter who fixed the fight, had his manager beaten to death and had Tommy framed. In order to go undercover and investigate, Lou becomes a boxer and Bud poses as his manager. They go down to Stillwell's gym where Lou gets in the ring with Rocky Hanlon (John Day), the boxer who Tommy had knocked out. Tommy, still invisible, gets in the ring with them and knocks out Hanlon again. Everyone thinks that Lou did it, and a real match of the two fighters is arranged. Morgan tries to get Lou to throw the fight, but when the match takes place, again with an invisible Tommy, Hanlon is knocked out again. Morgan prepares to teach Lou the same lesson and plans to have Bud killed. They prevent that from happening, but in the battle Tommy is wounded. They head to the hospital where a blood transfusion is arranged between Lou and Tommy. As the blood flows from Lou to Tommy, Tommy becomes visible again. Unfortunately it seems that some of Tommy's blood made its way into Lou, as he turns invisible. However, the effect does not last and he returns to sight, but when he does he finds that he legs are on backwards.

• Abbott and Costello crossed paths with the Invisible Man prior to this movie. In 1948, at the end of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Vincent Price, who played the invisible man in The Invisible Man Returns, can be heard in a cameo appearance as the Invisible Man.
• This was a modified remake of the 1940 film The Invisible Man Returns.
• After filming was completed, Abbott and Costello made the first of their 19 appearances on The Colgate Comedy Hour.
• Frawley, several months away from starring in the television series, I Love Lucy, previously appeared with Abbott and Costello in their first film, One Night in the Tropics.
• The character names of Abbott and Costello are Bud and Lou's real first and middle names.

The impressive special effects for this film, which depicted invisibility and other optical illusions, were created by David Horsley, who also did the special effects for The Invisible Man Returns, The Invisible Woman and Invisible Agent.

• Bud Abbott as Bud Alexander
• Lou Costello as Lou Francis
• Nancy Guild as Helen Gray
• Arthur Franz as Tommy Nelson
• Adele Jergens as Boots Marsden
• Sheldon Leonard as Boots Morgan
• William Frawley as Detective Roberts
• Gavin Muir as Dr. Philip Gray
• Sam Balter as Radio announcer
• John Daheim as Rocky Hanlon
• Paul Maxey as Dr. James C. Turner

August 3, 2004

• Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Universal Pictures horror movie series
Dracula Dracula (1931) | Dracula's Daughter (1936) | Son of Dracula (1943) | House of Dracula (1945)
Frankenstein Frankenstein (1931) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Wolf Man The Wolf Man (1941) | Werewolf of London (1935) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | She-Wolf of London (1946)
The Mummy The Mummy (1932) | The Mummy's Hand (1940) | The Mummy's Tomb (1942) | The Mummy's Ghost (1944) | The Mummy's Curse (1944) | Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
The Invisible Man The Invisible Man (1933) | The Invisible Man Returns (1940) | The Invisible Woman (1940) | Invisible Agent (1942) | The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) | Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
The Creature from the Black Lagoon Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Edgar Allan Poe Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) | The Black Cat (1934) | The Raven (1935)
The Phantom The Phantom of the Opera (1925) | Phantom of the Opera (1943) | The Climax (1944)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)