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5 April 1948 (USA)
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BUD ABBOTT LOU COSTELLO in the CHOKE of the Century!
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Abbott and Costello are two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000...
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(Complete credited cast) | Bud Abbott | ... | Ted Higgins |
| Lou Costello | ... | Homer Hinchcliffe |
| Joseph Calleia | ... | Nick Craig |
| Leon Errol | ... | Julius Caesar 'J.C.' McBride |
| Cathy Downs | ... | Carol Scott |
| Mike Mazurki | ... | Chuck |
| Fritz Feld | ... | Psychiatrist |
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77 min
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Featured in Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994) (TV)
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The Noose Hangs High marks Abbott&Costello's only film for the short lived Eagle-Lion Productions. This was an effort by J. Arthur Rank over across the pond to break into the American film market with his own production and distribution company.
Bud&Lou are a pair of window washers who are mistaken for messengers that are employed by bookie Joseph Calleia. It seems as though he's been taken to the cleaners by one of his bettors and though it hurts he has to pay off. The messengers are to get the money from Ben Welden and deliver it to Calleia.
Of course Welden has ideas of having the boys held up and stealing the money for himself. Costello actually eludes the crooks, but sends the money to Cathy Downs by mistake. Now he and Bud have 48 hours to come up with the money or ELSE.
Leon Errol is along for the ride as his usual drunken playboy and he subs for Abbott as Lou's straight-man a couple of times. Though in those routines I can't tell who's the one really getting the laughs.
What always gets me about The Noose Hangs High is Calleia and how he could be that dumb to mistake these two for good help. What's that say about him. Proof of that is a routine where both Abbott and Costello make a monkey out of big dumb leg breaker Mike Mazurki.
The Noose Hangs High is a remake of the Universal film For Love Or Money. I haven't seen the original, but the material was definitely rewritten to suit Bud&Lou. It becomes nothing more than a vehicle for the boys to do several of their burlesque routines. Which for their fans is more than enough.