Classic Friday : Hold That Ghost (1941) 8/10

Starring : Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Evelyn Ankers, Joan Davis
Director : Arthur Lubin
Running Time : 83 mins

When a gangster is killed in their car, Chuck (Abbott) and Ferdinand (Costello) inherit his mansion, which is supposedly haunted. Their intentions to turn it into a profitable restaurant soon hit the back burner when they start to experience strange goings on in the many rooms, and start to believe that the rumours of it's haunting may be true.

This is one of the better early Abbott and Costello movies, and why they didn't do more scary comedies sooner is beyond me. This is helped by not having the many usual musical interludes as some of their other films, and the additional characters, such as Carlson's doctor and Davis's Camille are much more likeable and believable than the usual background characters.

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