In Sherlock Holmes' footsteps

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Movie
German title In Sherlock Holmes' footsteps
Original title Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1951
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Charles Lamont
script Robert Lee's
Frederic I. Rinaldo
John Grant
production Howard Christie
music Joseph Gershenson
camera George Robinson
cut Virgil W. Vogel
occupation

In Sherlock Holmes' footsteps is an American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont from 1951, starring the comedian duo Abbott and Costello . The film is based on a story by Hugh Wedlock Jr. and Howard Snyder and satirizing the film The Invisible (1933). Alternative titles are The Invisible Meets Abbott and Costello and Abbott and Costello in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes .

action

Private detectives Bud and Lou are new to the business. Her first case concerns middleweight boxer Tommy Nelson. Nelson asks the detectives to accompany him to his fiancée Helen Gray. Nelson recently escaped from prison; he is charged with the murder of his manager. Helen's uncle, the scientist Dr. Philip Gray, developed an invisibility serum that Nelson uses to find the real killer. But the doctor refuses because the serum is still too unstable. When the police show up, Nelson injected himself with the serum. While Detective Roberts interrogates the doctor and his niece, Bud and Lou search for Nelson.

Helen and her fiancé ask Bud and Lou for help. You want to find the real killer. Nelson thinks he knows the motive. He did not participate in any combat manipulation, which is why his manager was murdered. The manager who made the arrangement, Morgan, ordered the death of Nelson's manager and then blamed Nelson for the murder.

Bud and Lou disguise themselves for the investigation, Lou as a boxer, Bud as his agent. In Stillwell's sports hall, Lou steps into the ring against Rocky Hanlon, the boxer Nelson knocked out against the agreement. The invisible Nelson gets in the ring and knocks Hanlon out again, it looks like Lou did that. An official fight is then arranged. Morgan wants to rig the fight and urges Lou to let Hanlon win. But again with the help of the invisible Nelson, Hanlon is knocked out by Lou. Morgan plans to kill Bud, but Nelson thwarts the plan and is wounded in the process.

At the hospital, a blood transfusion is performed between Nelson and Lou. Nelson then becomes visible and Lou invisible for a short time.

Reviews

"One of the better films by the comedian duo, humorous and fast-paced at the same time, with a few tricky trickery pieces."

- Lexicon of international film

“The German title is inadequate. For the Americans, it was important to use trick effects, which incidentally received high praise in the specialist press, to make the invisible believable, and to attach particular importance to the anyway nonsensical detective story. "

- The new lexicon of horror films by Ronald M. Hahn and Rolf Giesen

background

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  • Abbott and Costello's role last names are their original middle names (middle names).
  • Another film in the series with the invisible was to be made from the original. But after the successes of Abbott and Costello, the script was rewritten into a comedy.
  • David S. Horsley was responsible for the special effects. He had previously worked on three invisible films with John P. Fulton and received a special Oscar in 1955 .
  • Oscar-winning set decorator Russell A. Gausman came to this film. He received an Oscar in 1944 and another was added in 1961.
  • Sound engineer Leslie I. Carey was awarded an Oscar in 1955.
  • The co-composer Johnny Green , not mentioned in the credits , had already received an Oscar for best film music in 1949, three more were added in 1952, 1962 and 1969, plus an Oscar for best short film in 1954.
  • The co-composer and three-time Oscar winner Miklós Rózsa was also not featured in the credits .
  • In the picture in Dr. Gray's laboratory features Claude Rains , who starred in The Invisible Man (1933).
  • Several scenes from The Invisible Returns (1940) were reused, including a. when the guinea pig becomes invisible on the laboratory bench and then moves around in the cage.
  • World premieres:
  • USA: March 7, 1951
  • Germany: February 8, 1952
  • Austria: October 24, 1952

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literature

  • Michel, Jean-Claude: De L'angoisse au rire ... les comedies fantastiques d'Abbott et Costello - In: L'Ecran fantastique No. 4, pp. 20-39 - Paris 1978
  • Warren, Bill: Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man - In: Keep Watching the Skies! , Pp. 18/19 - Jefferson / London, 1982

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
  2. ↑ cf. The new lexicon of horror films - Ronald M. Hahn, Rolf Giesen - Lexikon Imprint Verlag Berlin, 2002 - ISBN 3-89602-507-4
  3. ↑ World premieres according to IMDb