Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

“MORE GHOULISH GLEE THAN WHEN THEY MET FRANKENSTEIN!”

6.5(56)19491h 24m

ComedyHorrorMystery

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

Budget

$0.7M

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Cast

Bud Abbott

Casey Edwards

Lou Costello

Freddie Phillips

Boris Karloff

Swami Talpur

Lenore Aubert

Angela Gordon

Gar Moore

Jeff Wilson

Donna Martell

Betty Crandall

Alan Mowbray

Melton

James Flavin

Insp. Wellman

Roland Winters

T. Hanley Brooks

Nicholas Joy

Amos Strickland

Mikel Conrad

Sgt. Stone

Morgan Farley

Gregory Milford

Reviews

1 review

John Chard

11y ago

7.0

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 ...