{"id":22380,"date":"2014-10-24T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22380"},"modified":"2016-09-19T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:29:44","slug":"hold-that-ghost-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/hold-that-ghost-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold That Ghost (1941)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"holdthatghost\"<\/a>\u201cHold That Ghost\u201d is one of the best horror comedy romps featuring Abbott and Costello and a very close second to their more well known outing involving famous Universal monsters. And while it\u2019s not the masterpiece that their outing with Frankenstein and Dracula is, it\u2019s a damn respectable horror comedy with a great tribute to \u201cThe Cat and the Canary.\u201d If that\u2019s not enough, Lou Costello is given a great female foil in the form of Joan Davis, who is a blast playing off of Costello\u2019s ace physical comedy with her own double takes and unabashed slapstick.<\/p>\n

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The guys play Chuck and Ferdie, two waiters for hire during the hard economic times that go to work for an upscale restaurant. They dream of opening their own joint, but when that\u2019s botched, they end up working for a gas station. After a run in with a gangster named \u201cMoose,\u201d they become unwilling participants in a getaway chase. Their presences before the criminal died gave them access to a weird clause in his will allowing them to inherit his abandoned tavern. Inside there\u2019s an alleged stash of cash that they\u2019re in search of, including a fellow traveler they\u2019re unaware worked for \u201cMoose,\u201d and has his own ideas in mind.<\/p>\n

Chuck and Ferdie travel along with their lawyer and a few others to the tavern, and are stranded in the spooky abode overnight. There, they begin getting chased around and stalked by masked beings and shadows in to the night that they\u2019re unaware are also gangsters in search of the alleged cash. Most of \u201cHold that Ghost\u201d sports the team\u2019s trademark slapstick as they run through corridors, and in to doors, all the while letting their imaginations create the menaces. Director Arthur Lubin creates a great atmosphere that make the film feel almost like a William Castle title, all the while the team of Abbott and Costello are top notch. I\u2019m not sure I like the way the story wraps up, as star Joan Davis had prime chemistry with Costello, but all in all it\u2019s a hilarious comedy with great one-liners, and some excellent physical humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHold That Ghost\u201d is one of the best horror comedy romps featuring Abbott and Costello and a very close second to their more well known outing involving famous Universal monsters. And while it\u2019s not the masterpiece that their outing with Frankenstein and Dracula is, it\u2019s a damn respectable horror comedy with a great tribute to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[1329,71,219,240,391,477,700,703,922,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-22380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-abbot-and-costello","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-crime","tag-gangster","tag-horror","tag-musical","tag-mystery","tag-sequel","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22382,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380\/revisions\/22382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}