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

★ 6.5 1h 24m IMDb
Comedy Horror Mystery

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).

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

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Bud Abbott
Bud Abbott as Casey Edwards Died 1974 · Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello..
Lou Costello
Lou Costello as Freddie Phillips Died 1959 · Paterson, New Jersey, USA Louis Francis Costello (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959) was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bum...
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff as Swami Talpur Died 1969 · Camberwell, London, England, UK William Henry Pratt (November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969), better known as Boris Karloff, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror...
Lenore Aubert
Lenore Aubert as Angela Gordon Died 1993 · Celje, Slovenia Lenore Aubert (born Eleonore Maria Leisner, 18 April 1913 – 31 July 1993) was a model and Hollywood actress best known for her movie roles as exotic, mysterious women..
Donna Martell
Donna Martell as Betty Crandall Age 98 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray as Melton Died 1969 · London, England, UK ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Mowbray MM, (18 August 1896 - 25 March 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood. Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, Engla...
Director Charles Barton
Cast Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Lenore Aubert, Gar Moore, Donna Martell, Alan Mowbray, James Flavin, Roland Winters, Nicholas Joy

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John Chard 7/10 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 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

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