In the late 1940s, Universal Monster movies were considered old-fashioned, and Bud Abbott ... first horror comedy — that honor would go to 1941’s Hold That Ghost. But it seemed that Lou ...

The devil's work is never done.

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a ...