I was a small child when I saw this one in 1950. I know it was 1950 because, in the newsreel between the pictures, the death of Al Jolson was announced. I had already seen belated reruns of Buck Privates and the in the Navy follow up (our local movie house didn't get pictures right away), so I was not prepared for the violence and stabbings. I still don't find stabbings funny. The worst scene was when Lou was in the secret cave and got his head stuck in the bottom of a giant stone basin. Lou's head was the stopper in the basin. The unseen killer diverted a stream to flow into the basin so the basin would fill up with water and drown Lou. Ha ha ha. In the 1970s, a local TV station showed an Abbott and Costello movie every Saturday morning, and my kids watched them. I made sure to get them occupied with something else when I saw this one was scheduled.
