Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

G 08/22/1949 (US) Comedy, Horror, Mystery 1h 24m

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MORE GHOULISH GLEE THAN WHEN THEY MET FRANKENSTEIN!

Overview

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).

Howard Snyder

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Hugh Wedlock Jr.

Screenplay, Story
Charles Barton

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John Grant

Screenplay
Oscar Brodney

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Top Billed Cast

Bud Abbott

Casey Edwards
Lou Costello

Freddie Phillips
Boris Karloff

Swami Talpur
Lenore Aubert

Angela Gordon
Gar Moore

Jeff Wilson
Donna Martell

Betty Crandall
Alan Mowbray

Melton
James Flavin

Insp. Wellman
Roland Winters

T. Hanley Brooks
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on May 5, 2015

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 deliver, because it does, very much so. Be it Freddie (Costello) being too stupid to be hypnotised by the shifty Swami (Boris Karloff), or a wonderful sequence of events down in the creepy caverns, it's fun and very diverting. However, the strength in "Meet The Killer" is that it works very well as a whodu... read the rest.

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