Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
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- 1951
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All hail beloved
alma mater
Steadfast and loyal
we will be
This is the greatest thing that ever
happened to me. How did I ever graduate?
I slipped the guy 20 bucks.
Now, keep quiet.
...detective training
And now we graduate
from Dugan's
Experts in criminology
And since they say
that crime won't pay
We will fight crime
with good old
D.D.T.
Men, I have taught you
all I know.
You've studied hard and
learned well, most of you.
You have earned the Dugan
Detective Training diploma.
And the D.D.T. diploma
on an office wall...
means a steady
stream of clients.
Bud Alexander.
In accordance with my agreement
with the students who graduate...
a recognized detective agency.
Report to the MacQuillan
Agency in the Fort building.
Give him this card. Thank you.
Louis Francis.
Thank you.
Thank you!
You've been seeing too many
Sherlock Holmes pictures lately.
Take off
that cap.!
he won't attract much attention.
Put that down,
that is not a lollipop.!
Turn on the
police calls.
Hurry up, it might
tip us off to something.
I'm glad MacQuillan
gave us the night shift.
Maybe we can grab a case
and solve it ourselves.
We get a tip on a bank robbery,
better yet, a murder...
and we follow the murderer
to his hideout. Yeah.
We go to his hideout and
Remember, death lurks
in every corner.
And suddenly,
Fellas interested in a case? A case?
A case of what? Shh, quiet!
You want us to handle a case!
Which one of you is MacQuillan? I am. I am.
Who's who? He's Mac, I'm Quillan.
Just call us Bud and Lou.
Attention.
Be on the lookout for
Tommy Nelson, escaped murderer.
He is 5'11", weighs 165,
blue eyes, brown hair.
When last seen, was wearing
dark felt hat, overcoat...
Nelson? Isn't that
the middleweight...
who killed his manager after his
last fight? That's what they said.
If we weren't taking your case,
I'd grab that murderer.
I don't think you have to
look very far. Keep quiet!
blue eyes, sandy hair.
Put down...
turned-up collar and soft hat.
Quiet, the man
wants a telephone.
If that ain't Tommy Nelson,
it's Frankenstein.
Frankenstein!
Hello, Helen,
is anyone around?
Good.
I must see the doctor at once.
I'll be right over.
There's money in this for you. How much?
Plenty. Take me
to 823 Maple St...
and I'll tell you
all about it. Let's go.
That's him.
Who?
Tommy Nelson. I'd love
to get my hands on him.
Come on,
let's go.
I can't see a thing. Turn it around!
Bud, I-I-look!
What?
It's only a moth.
Come on!
Tommy, I've been
so worried.
I want to see the
doctor right away.
Fellas, wait the in library.
I'll be right back.
Excuse me.
She called him Tommy. That's
Tommy Nelson, the escaped killer.
Stop jumping
at conclusions.
want private detectives for?
So he can catch himself? So... Oh, come on!
Tommy,
is this wise?
The police know
about you and Helen.
This is the first place
they'll look.
Those men you brought with you...
It was my only way of getting here.
Can you trust them? If you'd brought the
serum, I wouldn't need to trust anybody.
What did happen?
Did you make up your minds that
I killed O'Hara? That's not fair.
Uncle Phil's been working on the
formula. You told me you had it developed.
I do, my boy.
You can see for yourself...
Pripitane serum was discovered
years ago and it works.
One injection, and the cell
structure becomes transparent.
What are you
waiting for?
Jab me with one of those and
the police will never catch me.
I'll be free to find out
And inside of a week,
you'd be a raving maniac...
just like its discoverer,
John Griffin. No.
I've got to take
that chance.
Do you want to go insane,
as John Griffin did?
Shot down like a mad dog
as he was?
He never regained his visibility
until he was dead.
When he willed
me this formula...
I swore I'd never use it until
I'd found some safe reagent...
some means of
bringing a man back...
avoiding insanity,
perhaps restoring visibility.
it means "the chair. "
So what difference
does it make?
Come on, that's a boy!
You can make it.
Did you see that?
What happened?
The halfback just ran around
his own end. Some trick.
give you a police bulletin.
Have you seen this man? He's
Tommy Nelson, escaped murderer.
There's a $5,000 reward. If you
have any information, phone...
What number?
Rlver-8-1-8-1.
Thank you. You're right,
this guy is the killer.
Let's get outta here. No,
we've got a great case.
We'll grab the murderer and get
the reward. We can't do that.
This guy hired you and I...
Nevertheless, he's a rat.
Because he killed his manager? Because he
didn't tell us there was a reward for him.
I'm sorry, Tommy,
I can't do it.
It's the police. Let's
sneak out the back way.
Good, let's go.
Wait.
We're detectives.
What am I running for?
Am I a crook? You want me to answer that?
It's the police. Stall them off and
I'll try to get out the back way.
All right, men,
take your positions.
It's a legal search
warrant. But it's ridiculous.
I've been ridiculous
before, beautiful.
Roy, you and I'll
take the upstairs.
Joe, you cover the back.
Eddie, you stay right here.
We've got to catch Nelson
before the cops do...
and collect
that reward.
I'll watch in the hall and you watch
here. You ain't gonna do that to me.
You watch here and I'll
watch in the hall. Okay.
That's the same thing! Shh.
We've got him.
He can't get away.
Look.
N-N-Now...
Bud.! Bud.!
Don't worry,
he can't get out.
Neither can I!
Bud!
Mr. Nelson,
I don't want the reward.
I'm for you.
Atta boy.
Ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha!
Don't forget,
we get the reward.
My pal's got him covered.
That boy is always on his toes.
Well,
where is he?
Always on his toes,
huh? Lou, snap out of it.
Come on, boy. I'll give
him a whiff of this.
Oh, Bud, I want
to tell you something.
Here's Bud.
Hi-ya, Bud.
Where did Tommy Nelson go? He disappeared.
How did he get out? In installments.
Installments? Yeah, he
did a Gypsy Rose Lee.
That... That's all
that's left of him.
Evidently Nelson
changed clothes.
What was he wearing the
last time you saw him?
Air.
Nothin' but air.
And then he asked me
how he looked.
Wearing air? What
are you talkin'about?
and then I shook hands with him.
His hand was gone.
I went to speak to him,
his head was gone.
He took off his shirt,
his body was gone.
He took off his pants,
his legs were gone.
Then he spoke to me,
I was gone.
This guy's a psycho
if I've ever seen one.
Would you mind coming
to the police station...
and telling a real nice man
just what you told us?
Don't you believe what I saw? Sure I do.
Things like this happen every day. They do?
Where have I been? I don't
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