Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff

1949

Action / Comedy / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

8
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 4496 4.5K

crossdressing hotel blackmail attempted murder slapstick comedy cross dressing

Plot summary

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 Photo
Charles Barton

Top cast

Bobby Barber Photo
Bobby Barber as Dry Cleaning Man
Marjorie Bennett Photo
Marjorie Bennett as Second Maid
Harry Brown Photo
Harry Brown as Medical Examiner
Boris Karloff Photo
Boris Karloff as Swami Talpur
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776.19 MB
988*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.41 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 7 / 10

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
Reviewed by cutshall0 7 / 10

Meet The Killer

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in this classic "who done it" movie. The team provides their usual funny pratfalls and mix-ups but along the way they manage to provide a classic theme to this movie. With Abbott and Costello, Karloff managing his way into the picture as the grueling possibility of the killer.This may be Abbott and Costello's best attempt to provide some new material into their excellent routines. Costello's character, Phillips is mainly accused of murdering a well known lawyer after they have a public disagreement.Phillips arrives at the lawyers hotel rooms to apologize but he finds that the lawyer has been murdered. Abbott goes far and above the the call of friendship to prove his friends innocents but who really did do it? Watch and see.
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