Movie review – A&C #11 - “Hit the Ice” (1943) **1/2

The idea of Abbott and Costello running loose in the snow is a good one and there are some very funny moments, such as Costello trying to impress a woman by playing the piano and where some gangsters become convinced the duo are hitmen (they’re photographers and talk about shooting people). There is also the obligatory chase on skis (which involves, hilariously, a bear). But overall this is not one of the strongest vehicles. The most irritating thing was the romantic love interest couple – dull Patric Knowles (unconvincingly a childhood friend of A & C) plays an annoyingly sexist doctor who keeps slagging off a nurse.