Noose Hangs High
For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal programmer For Love or Money . Bud and Lou are cast as Ted and Tommy, two bumbling window washers hired by gangster Mike Craig ( Joseph Calleila ) to collect a $50,000 gambling debt. The boys manage to pick up the money, only to deliver it to the wrong person, a pretty private secretary named Carol ( Cathy Downs ). Ordered to retrieve the money within 24 hours "or else," Ted...