During the 1930s-50s, Columbia Pictures made a ton of short comedies...often starring people who were past their prime and needed work. A few examples of these were the Columbia shorts starring Charley Chase, Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton....all who had seen better days with other studios before this. With "One Shivery Night", the studio picked up Hugh Herbert....an actor who worked steadily for Warner Brothers during the 30s and 40s but who was pretty much washed up by 1950. During the last four years of his life, Herbert made eight shorts for Columbia.
In this short, Hugh and his partner, Julius (Dudley Dickerson) are contracted to work on an old mansion. While there are rumors the old man who owned it hid money there, his heir (Vernon Dent) swears there isn't any and he plans on turning the place into a fishing lodge.
When the pair arrive there, there are already two fortune hunters there looking for treasure. But they cannot do this with Hugh and Julius in the place, so they set out to scare them away...leaving the house unoccupied.
This is pretty much a standard haunted house comedy--and they made tons of them! But it's also pleasant and entertaining...if not exactly original.
In this short, Hugh and his partner, Julius (Dudley Dickerson) are contracted to work on an old mansion. While there are rumors the old man who owned it hid money there, his heir (Vernon Dent) swears there isn't any and he plans on turning the place into a fishing lodge.
When the pair arrive there, there are already two fortune hunters there looking for treasure. But they cannot do this with Hugh and Julius in the place, so they set out to scare them away...leaving the house unoccupied.
This is pretty much a standard haunted house comedy--and they made tons of them! But it's also pleasant and entertaining...if not exactly original.
