

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
MORE GHOULISH GLEE THAN WHEN THEY MET FRANKENSTEIN!
Lost Caverns Resort Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips gives an empty threat to one attorney Amos Strickland, and is shortly fired. When Freddie visits his guest's suite to apologize, he finds Strickland dead of a gunshot wound. As the investigators file in, Freddie becomes the scapegoat of the guests in the hotel, who all had a bone to pick with Strickland. It's now up to Freddie and Detective Casey Edwards to find out who the real killer is, all the while avoiding the many vigorous and violent villains staying at the resort.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $686K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- hotel
- blackmail
- attempted murder
- slapstick comedy
- femme fatale
- cross dressing
- black and white
- screwball comedy
- hypnotism
- murder investigation
- elevator
- murder plot
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical22 Aug 1949
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG3 Oct 1949
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalG26 May 1949
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff was released on 26 May 1949.
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1- J7/10
John Chard
5/5/2015
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 …
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