The Abbott and Costello Show (TV Series) Las Vegas (1953) User Reviews

Vegas Trip For Goodhearted ones

[DKosty123 · 9/10 · 13 November 2010]

This episode plays very well & hits on all cylinders pretty much. Abbott & Costello are in good form. Speaking of good form, Hillary Brooke is much in evidence here & this episode reminds you just how attractive this woman is. Sid Fields is good here running a used car lot that is much like a prison when they slam the gates on customers Bud & Lou when they enter the car lot.

The driver license bureau sequence & car lot sequence are both funny. The Las Vegas sequence is good too including the classic mudder-fodder routine. The Vegas routine borrows quit literally from their movie "The Noose Hangs High" including the character of Julius Ceasar though there are enough differences that the show is not the same as the movie.

This is all solid material including a few physical routines by the always physical Costello.

Vegas Bound

[JordanThomasHall · 8/10 · 10 July 2019]

Bud and Lou have won an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas from a quiz show. They decide to take Hillary with them. The boys go to the license bureau to apply for a driver's license. The clerk's (Harry Tyler) routine questions are comically answered by a nearly blind man (Eddie Parks) and Lou who accidentally has him sign a marriage license. Bud and Lou go to Friendly Fields used car lot. After being hurriedly fenced in behind them, a group of overly jovial men approach them about buying a car. After mixing up Lou on how much he's willing to spend, Fields (Sid Fields) sells them a car. As they set out for Vegas with Hillary, Bud cautions Lou not to fall for tricks from racetrack touts. Lou speeds to Vegas but takes a very indirect route. At the hotel, Lou falls for a woman's (Virginia Christine) sob story about losing her husband's money and gives her $57. A tout (Bobby Barber) sells him a dopesheet (horse racing info), but it's yesterday's. In looking at the racing form, Bud hits on the "mudder and fodder" routine that Lou comically continues with a man named Julius Caesar (Lucien Littlefield) playing billiards.

BUY A CAR FROM FRIENDLY FIELDS??

[tcchelsey · 10/10 · 22 June 2022]

Mr. Fields is in the crooked used car business and Bud and Lou are customers! This is a fun episode.

Fields is a real slickster with a lot full of junked up cars, and the running gag is that every car falls apart with one touch. Next stop: Las Vegas. The boys finally get a car, pick up Hillary Brooke and head for the gambling capital. There's a fun scene that shows the way they travel (criss crossing a map all the way from LA to Vegas). Once there they meet a bunch of nut cases, including a kook named Julius Caesar who plays a game of pool with Costello. Veteran Lucien Littlefield (who acted with Laurel and Hardy in the 1930s), plays Caesar. A super gag has Costello being hit in the head with pool table balls every time one is shot into a pocket. There's also the crying lady (played by Virginia Christine) who is robbing Lou blind with her hard luck stories. Not to be missed. SEASON 1 EPISODE 22 dvd box set.