When Abbott and Costello play movie star barbers who become agents, you know that chaos is going to ensue for their clients and the studio, and in their effort to turn a small town singer into a movie star, they from another for murder. Fictioonally named movie stars join real-life actors (as themselves) Lucille Ball and Rags Ragland with cameos by Marion Martin and Mike Mazurki in a hysterical saloon scene where Costello pretends to be a prop dummy thrown around like an amateur wrestler. Don't fret for the movie actor framed for murder-he's the film's "villain", sabotaging the small-town performer to get the film role away from him.
This is high-lighted by a musical carnival sequence with Costello on a roller-coaster set up to explode, as zany as anything that Harold Lloyd ever did in silent movies. Other memorable sequences include Costello trying to shave a balloon, attempting a sleep exercise assisted by a record (which skips) and going into a costume room to hide from studio cops after which he is judged perfect in his own clothes for a filmed sequence where he is mistaken for an extra dressed as a tramp.
Ironically, Abbott is hardly around in this one-Costello dominates with his partner barely on-screen. Frances Rafferty and Jean Porter are the sole feminine actors-merely window dressing for Costello's zany antics. This was directed by S. Sylvan Simon, the man behind many of Red Skelton's zany farces.
This is high-lighted by a musical carnival sequence with Costello on a roller-coaster set up to explode, as zany as anything that Harold Lloyd ever did in silent movies. Other memorable sequences include Costello trying to shave a balloon, attempting a sleep exercise assisted by a record (which skips) and going into a costume room to hide from studio cops after which he is judged perfect in his own clothes for a filmed sequence where he is mistaken for an extra dressed as a tramp.
Ironically, Abbott is hardly around in this one-Costello dominates with his partner barely on-screen. Frances Rafferty and Jean Porter are the sole feminine actors-merely window dressing for Costello's zany antics. This was directed by S. Sylvan Simon, the man behind many of Red Skelton's zany farces.