The house is said to be haunted because of the murder in the Blue Room. To prove it nonsense, a guest decides to sleep in it.... and disappears.
This Universal mystery/comedy/thriller looks like it may have been bought for Abbott & Costello. Later, the comedy stylings were set for the Ritz Brothers, but something happened, so Grace MacDonald, Betty Kean and June Preissler were given some songs, some dances and the comedy gags. Under the direction of Leslie Goodwins, they do just fine, amidst a cast that includes Donald Cook, John Litel, Regis Toomey, and the comic/sinister butler played by Ian Wolfe.
Besides the guests disappearing from the Blue Room, there is a piano that plays Beethoven without a player and Robert Cherry as a ghost who wants directions to the graveyard. It moves along at a good clip, blithely bouncing across genres in a script that is the first screen credit for future Billy Wilder collaborator, I.A.L. Diamond.
This Universal mystery/comedy/thriller looks like it may have been bought for Abbott & Costello. Later, the comedy stylings were set for the Ritz Brothers, but something happened, so Grace MacDonald, Betty Kean and June Preissler were given some songs, some dances and the comedy gags. Under the direction of Leslie Goodwins, they do just fine, amidst a cast that includes Donald Cook, John Litel, Regis Toomey, and the comic/sinister butler played by Ian Wolfe.
Besides the guests disappearing from the Blue Room, there is a piano that plays Beethoven without a player and Robert Cherry as a ghost who wants directions to the graveyard. It moves along at a good clip, blithely bouncing across genres in a script that is the first screen credit for future Billy Wilder collaborator, I.A.L. Diamond.