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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

    Comedy
    Horror
    Mystery
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May 26, 1949
Rating Unavailable

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).

Details

  • Directors
  • Budget
    $686,000
  • Vote Average
    6.5
  • Vote Count
    53
  • Popularity
    6
  • Language
    English
  • Origin Country
    US

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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Reviews

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John Chard
70%
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