Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Unrated

8/22/19491h 24m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ 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).

Director:

Charles Barton

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$686,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

hotel
blackmail
attempted murder
slapstick comedy
cross dressing
black and white
screwball comedy
hypnotism
elevator

Cast

Bud Abbott

~ as ~

Casey Edwards

Lou Costello

~ as ~

Freddie Phillips

Boris Karloff

~ as ~

Swami Talpur

Lenore Aubert

~ as ~

Angela Gordon

Gar Moore

~ as ~

Jeff Wilson

Donna Martell

~ as ~

Betty Crandall

Alan Mowbray

~ as ~

Melton

James Flavin

~ as ~

Insp. Wellman

Roland Winters

~ as ~

T. Hanley Brooks

Nicholas Joy

~ as ~

Amos Strickland

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 10 year(s) ago
7
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 whodunit mystery, a ream of characters, all acting oddly, come and go to keep the viewer guessing right through to the cheery pay off. It's entertaining on two fronts and has a cast clearly having fun into the bargain. Super shadowy photography by Charles Van Enger as well. Enjoy!

Now, about that Tortoise? 7/10