Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

1949 PG-13 1h 24m

6.6 / 10 57

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

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).

Director Charles Barton

Writers

Howard Snyder Howard Snyder Hugh Wedlock Jr.

Stars

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Boris Karloff

Joe, Reporter (uncredited)

Bobby Barber

Dry Cleaning Man (uncredited)

Marjorie Bennett

Second Maid (uncredited)

Gail Bonney

First Maid (uncredited)

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Harry Brown

Medical Examiner (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

Beatrice Gray

Woman (uncredited)

Billy Gray

Boy With Bow and Arrow (uncredited)

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Patricia Hall

Manicurist (uncredited)

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Arthur Hecht

Photographer (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

Room Service Waiter (uncredited)

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Ed Randolph

Bootblack (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

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Frankie Van

Bozzo (uncredited)

Comedy Horror Mystery

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John Chard 5 May 2015

7/10

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 ...