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Bud Alexander and his bumbling pal, Lou Francis, graduate
from Dugan's Detective School and are assigned to the McQuilan Detective
Agency. On their first night at work, champion boxer Tommy Nelson, who
is wanted for the murder of his manager, O'Hara, rushes in and hires Bud and
Lou to clear him of the charges. They follow him to the home of his
girlfriend, Helen Gray, whose uncle, Dr. Philip Gray, demonstrates a new
invisibility serum on a guinea pig, which disappears before their eyes.
Although Tommy wants an injection right away so he can elude the police,
Phil explains that the serum turned its inventor into a raving, homicidal
maniac, and that since he has no antidote, it is not yet safe for humans.
Just then, however, the police arrive, and Tommy takes the serum as soon as
Phil's back is turned and disappears in front of Lou. The police
question Lou about Tommy's location but, when he tells them Tommy is
invisible, they bring him to a psychiatrist to be hypnotized. Soon,
Lou unwittingly hypnotizes the doctor and his entire staff, and is kicked
out of the building.
The next day, Bud, Lou and an invisible Tommy visit his old
gym, where he points out his last opponent, Rocky Hanlon, and Rocky's
financier, gangster Morgan. He explains that Morgan and O'Hara made a
deal that Tommy would take a dive in his fight with Rocky, but when Tommy
knocked Rocky out, Morgan killed O'Hara and framed Tommy. Tommy
outlines his plan: Bud will pretend to manage Lou, a champion fighter,
and Lou will agree to throw a fight with Rocky. When Lou then reneges,
Tommy explains, and Morgan attempts to murder Bud, they can turn the mobster
into the police.
With Tommy doing the actual punching, Lou puts on a boxing
exhibition and is promptly nicknamed "Louie the Looper." Morgan
challenges him to fight Rocky; though Lou is terrified at the prospect,
Tommy promises he will be in the ring with him the whole time.
At dinner that night, Morgan's moll, Boots Marsden, flirts
with Lou, and he visits her hotel room later that evening with a recorder
hidden in a huge bouquet of flowers. Lou manages to tape her
encouraging him to throw the fight, but after he slips the recording into
his pants, he immediately sits on it and breaks it. Meanwhile, the
still invisible Tommy gets drunk in the restaurant downstairs and raves that
he is all-powerful and will destroy anyone who gets in his way. Tommy
provokes a fight with a stranger and, when the other man swings at Lou,
Tommy is knocked out.
Bud and Lou then attract attention when they drag him to
Helen's home. There, Phil secretly straps Tommy down and holds him
prisoner. Upon waking, Tommy accuses Phil of wanting only to protect
his own professional reputation. Before the fight the next day, Bud
and Lou wait nervously for Tommy to arrive. At the last minute, the
boxer manages to escape his bonds and enter the ring, where he helps Lou
pummel Rocky. When Tommy leaves the ring to trail Morgan, Rocky
recovers and beats up Lou. Tommy jumps back into the ring and knocks
Rocky out but, by the time Phil arrives at the fight with the invisibility
antidote, no one can find him. Morgan plants one of his goons dressed
as a policeman outside Lou's dressing room and then hides inside.
While the henchman keeps the police out of the room, Morgan attacks Bud and
Lou. Just then, Tommy arrives and grabs Morgan long enough for Lou to
get the gangster's gun. Lou accidentally shoots the heating unit, and
the escaping steam exposes Tommy's ghostly outline, allowing Morgan to stab
him in the chest. As Tommy collapses, the police break down the door
and arrest Morgan. Later, at the hospital, Tommy survives thanks to a
blood transfusion from Lou. Lou receives a small amount of Tommy's
blood, however, and turns invisible just long enough to wreak havoc by
kissing all the nurses on the ward. |
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