Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff poster

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

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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).

    Top Billed Cast

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      Bud Abbott

      Casey Edwards

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      Lou Costello

      Freddie Phillips

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      Boris Karloff

      Swami Talpur

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      Lenore Aubert

      Angela Gordon

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      Gar Moore

      Jeff Wilson

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      Donna Martell

      Betty Crandall

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      Alan Mowbray

      Melton

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      James Flavin

      Insp. Wellman

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      Roland Winters

      T. Hanley Brooks

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      Nicholas Joy

      Amos Strickland

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      Mikel Conrad

      Sgt. Stone

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      Morgan Farley

      Gregory Milford

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      Victoria Horne

      Mrs. Hargreave

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      Percy Helton

      Abernathy

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      Claire Du Brey

      Mrs. Grimsby

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      Harry Hayden

      Lawrence Crandall

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      Vincent Renno

      Mike Relia

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      Murray Alper

      Joe, Reporter (uncredited)

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      Bobby Barber

      Dry Cleaning Man (uncredited)

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      Marjorie Bennett

      Second Maid (uncredited)

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      Gail Bonney

      First Maid (uncredited)

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      Harry Brown

      Medical Examiner (uncredited)

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      Jack Chefe

      Barber (uncredited)

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      Eddie Coke

      Reporter (uncredited)

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      Beatrice Gray

      Woman (uncredited)

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      Billy Gray

      Boy With Bow and Arrow (uncredited)

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      Patricia Hall

      Manicurist (uncredited)

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      Arthur Hecht

      Photographer (uncredited)

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      William H. O'Brien

      Room Service Waiter (uncredited)

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      Ed Randolph

      Bootblack (uncredited)

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      Phil Shepard

      Bellboy (uncredited)

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      Billy Snyder

      Reporter (uncredited)

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      Frankie Van

      Bozzo (uncredited)

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    A review by John Chard

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    Written by John Chard on Tue May 05 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...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    686000.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • hotel
    • blackmail
    • attempted murder
    • slapstick comedy
    • cross dressing
    • screwball comedy
    • hypnotism
    • elevator