Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
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).
- Charles Barton
- Betty A. Griffin
- Joseph E. Kenney
- Hugh Wedlock Jr.
- Hugh Wedlock Jr.
- Howard Snyder
- John Grant
- Howard Snyder
- Oscar Brodney
Rating: 6.5/10 by 53 users
Alternative Title:
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff - US
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff - US
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 24 minutes
Budget: $686,000
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: hotel, blackmail, attempted murder, slapstick comedy, cross dressing, screwball comedy, hypnotism, elevator
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
