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

"MORE GHOULISH GLEE THAN WHEN THEY MET FRANKENSTEIN!"

6.5/10 1h 24m May 26, 1949
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).

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Movie Details

Original Title Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Original Language EN
Budget $686,000
Status Released
Popularity 0.7

Cast

Bud Abbott
Bud Abbott
Casey Edwards
Popularity: 1.5
Lou Costello
Lou Costello
Freddie Phillips
Popularity: 0.4
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff
Swami Talpur
Popularity: 2.5
Lenore Aubert
Lenore Aubert
Angela Gordon
Popularity: 2.0
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Gar Moore
Jeff Wilson
Popularity: 0.3
Donna Martell
Donna Martell
Betty Crandall
Popularity: 0.8
Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray
Melton
Popularity: 4.6
James Flavin
James Flavin
Insp. Wellman
Popularity: 2.5
Roland Winters
Roland Winters
T. Hanley Brooks
Popularity: 1.5
Nicholas Joy
Nicholas Joy
Amos Strickland
Popularity: 1.1
Mikel Conrad
Mikel Conrad
Sgt. Stone
Popularity: 0.5
Morgan Farley
Morgan Farley
Gregory Milford
Popularity: 11.4

Key Crew

Director Charles Barton
Editor Edward Curtiss
Screenplay Howard Snyder, Hugh Wedlock Jr., John Grant
Producer Robert Arthur
Music Frank Skinner, Johnny Green, Walter Schumann
Writer Oscar Brodney

Production

Universal International Pictures
US

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Keywords

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

Reviews from TMDB

John Chard 7/10
May 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 delive ... Read more

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Details
Release Date May 26, 1949
Runtime 1h 24m
Budget $686,000
Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.7
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