Lou has been reading a book entitled "How to Be a Private Eye" through the Watchdog Correspondence School. He receives a framed diploma, badge, handcuffs, gun, etc. in the mail. He chains himself to Bud with handcuffs that he loses the key to. It goes through a hole in the wall and Lou drops a match down it that starts a fire. They struggle to work in tandem to put it out. At the boarding house, Lou comes across an upset neighbor, Dot (Lyn Thomas). Her grandfather, an eccentric inventor, died a few months ago and left her $50,000 in bonds, hidden somewhere in his spooky mansion. She is afraid to move in, owing some of the creepy happenings to her cousin Bill Mason (Keith Richards) who felt cheated at the reading of the will and vowed, "no one would rob him of what's rightfully his." Lou agrees to use his private eye services to go into the house and take care of Bill. Bud joins Lou, but they split up and Bill's henchmen try to scare off Lou- all unseen by Bud. The fear may be too strong to continue searching for the bonds.
Definitely an Abbott and Costello version of The Three Stooges' "Spooks", released a year earlier. Both were released in theaters in 3D.
Definitely an Abbott and Costello version of The Three Stooges' "Spooks", released a year earlier. Both were released in theaters in 3D.
