The Noose Hangs High (1948)
BUD ABBOTT LOU COSTELLO in the CHOKE of the Century!
Two window washers are mistaken for crooks by gangsters who are missing money.
- Date of release
- 1948-04-05
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (25)
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Charles Barton
Casting
- Bud Abbott — Ted Higgins
- Lou Costello — Homer Hinchcliffe
- Joseph Calleia — Nick Craig
- Leon Errol — Julius Caesar 'J.C.' McBride
- Cathy Downs — Carol Blair
- Mike Mazurki — Chuck
- Fritz Feld — Psychiatrist
- Elvia Allman — Woman (uncredited)
- Lois Austin — Woman on Street (uncredited)
- Ellen Corby — Hilda - Maid (uncredited)
- Jimmie Dodd — Messenger (uncredited)
- Pat Flaherty — Tough Driver (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Noose Hangs High is a 1948 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film is a remake of the Universal Pictures film, For Love or Money.
Production
The Noose Hangs High was filmed from November 13 through December 10, 1947, under the terms of a new deal signed with Universal after completion of The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap. Those terms specified that Abbott and Costello were permitted to make one film a year with another company. Universal intended to make this film with Abbott and Costello.
The film was budgeted at $652,933, but came in $41,900 under.
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