Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Movie

1949

1h 24m

English

Comedy, Horror, Mystery

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6.6

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Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Movie

1949

1h 24m

English

Comedy, Horror, Mystery

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6.6

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Cast

Casey Edwards

Freddie Phillips

Swami Talpur

Angela Gordon

Jeff Wilson

Betty Crandall

Melton

Insp. Wellman

T. Hanley Brooks

Amos Strickland

Sgt. Stone

Gregory Milford

Mrs. Hargreave

Abernathy

Mrs. Grimsby

Lawrence Crandall

Mike Relia

Joe, Reporter (uncredited)

Bobby Barber

Dry Cleaning Man (uncredited)

Marjorie Bennett

Second Maid (uncredited)

Gail Bonney

First Maid (uncredited)

Harry Brown

Medical Examiner (uncredited)

Jack Chefe

Barber (uncredited)

Eddie Coke

Reporter (uncredited)

Beatrice Gray

Woman (uncredited)

Directed By: Charles Barton

Written By: Oscar Brodney, John Grant (Screenplay), + 4 more

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TKPNPodcast says...

4 years ago

One of the poor entries in the A&C catalog. Really not funny and not worth the view. Boris Karloff is utterly wasted, but an early sequence with Lou as a bellhop was fairly good. So shut it off after about 10 minutes and you will be safe.

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jarvis-8243417 says...

4 months ago

Mystery and laughs are afoot when _Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff_. The story follows two cousins that work at a hotel where a high powered lawyer is killed and set out to find the murderer, only to find that the hotel is full of suspects; any of whom could have done it. Despite what the title implies, Karloff is more of a supporting character; though he has a couple of good scenes. Still, overall the writers do a solid job at crafting a mystery and at laying out clues and suspects. The comedy is also well-done; mixing slapstick and wordplay (though is does get a little ridiculous at times). Incredibly entertaining, _Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff_ is a fun romp.

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John Chard

6 years ago

Tidy comedy, great mystery!

Bud & Lou find themselves at the center of a murder mystery, the chief suspect? Why Lou Costello of course.

As a comedy, Meet The Killer offers nothing fresh to what we haven't seen before from the boys prior to this 1949 offering, not that the comedy doesn't delive More

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