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Hold That Ghost <\/i>(1941)<\/strong><\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Arthur Lubin<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay:\u00a0 Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo, John Grant<\/strong> Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis, Evelyn Ankers, Mischa Auer, Marc Lawrence, Russell Hicks, The Andrews Sisters <\/strong>and Shemp Howard<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline:\u00a0 A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO! Your blues won’t stand a ghost of a chance…as they top “Buck Privates” and “In the Navy.”! <\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Chuck (Abbott) and Ferdinand (Costello) dream of someday owning their own nightclub.\u00a0 Recently they were fired from their jobs as waiters in a high class hot spot.\u00a0 Now the boys are gas station attendants.<\/p>\n While servicing a car, the police recognize the auto’s owner, gangster Moose Mattson.\u00a0 Moose takes off with Chuck and Ferdinand in the car.\u00a0 A high speed shootout takes place.\u00a0 Moose is mortally wounded.<\/p>\n Chuck and Ferdinand are surprised to learn that Moose’s will leaves them all of Moose’s possessions.\u00a0 The will specified that whoever was with Moose when he dies gets everything.\u00a0 \u00a0Chuck and Ferdinand are now the owners of the Forrester’s Club, a big old spooky rundown tavern.\u00a0 The place was a hotspot during prohibition.\u00a0 It is full of secret rooms and hidden passages.<\/p>\n Chuck, Ferdinand and three others find themselves alone at the creepy joint on a dark, stormy night.\u00a0 Things take a turn for the worse when some of Moose’s gangster friends show up looking for Moose’s hidden loot.\u00a0 These mugs are more than willing to kill to get what they want.<\/p>\n Let the fun times roll!<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Hold That Ghost\u00a0<\/em>went into production with the working title Oh, Charlie<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0Filming was well underway before the release of Abbott and Costello’s Buck Privates<\/em>.\u00a0 When Buck Privates<\/em> became a huge hit, the pressure was on.\u00a0 The studio decided to rush into production another service comedy, In The Navy<\/em> featuring Abbott and Costello.\u00a0 When that film was a hit, the studio decided to rework Oh, Charlie<\/em> into Hold That Ghost<\/em>.\u00a0 A new opening and closing featuring The Andrews Sisters was added since they appeared in both Buck Privates<\/em> and In The Navy<\/em>.\u00a0 Additional scenes were created and some were reshot.\u00a0 The changes paid off since Hold That Ghost<\/em> was a hit.<\/p>\n Hold That Ghost <\/i>(1941) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Hold That Ghost (1941) Director:\u00a0 Arthur Lubin Screenplay:\u00a0 Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo, John Grant Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38313,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38312\/revisions\/38313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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