Zombies on Broadway, astonishingly enough, turns out to be a sort of semi-sequel to Val Lewton's I Walked With A Zombie! Some of the cast from that movie turn up, including Darby Jones playing a different member of the undead, and of course, the august presence of Bela Lugosi helps keep things on the straight and narrow when Brown and Carney turn up.
I have to confess I haven't seen any other of their movies, but I quite enjoyed them in this outing, which I believe was their final film together. They may be less gifted than Abbott and Costello but frankly they are also less annoying, mugging a lot less than the more famous duo.
The Island where all the shennanigans takes place, is of course St. Sebastian, which again featured in the earlier Lewton movie. When Carney and Brown arrive searching for a real zombie for the nightclub of a former gangster (on pain of a cement overcoat after promising him a real one which turns out to be a fake), the action is brisk and reasonably entertaining.
Lugosi, perhaps suprisingly given his talent for spoofing his image, plays it pretty straight; although one scene with a monkey made me smile.
All in all, perhaps a bit better than you might expect.
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