Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
(1949)
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
Top Billed
Bud Abbott
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Reviews
John Chard
⭐ 7/10May 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 seque…
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$686,000
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