Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
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
Victoria Horne
Mrs. Hargreave
Percy Helton
Abernathy
Claire Du Brey
Mrs. Grimsby
Harry Hayden
Lawrence Crandall
Vincent Renno
Mike Relia
Murray Alper
Joe, Reporter (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
Dry Cleaning Man (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
Second Maid (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
First Maid (uncredited)
Harry Brown
Medical Examiner (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
Barber (uncredited)
Eddie Coke
Reporter (uncredited)
Beatrice Gray
Woman (uncredited)
Billy Gray
Boy With Bow and Arrow (uncredited)
Patricia Hall
Manicurist (uncredited)
Arthur Hecht
Photographer (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Room Service Waiter (uncredited)
Ed Randolph
Bootblack (uncredited)
Phil Shepard
Bellboy (uncredited)
Billy Snyder
Reporter (uncredited)
Frankie Van
Bozzo (uncredited)
Charles Barton
Director
Hugh Wedlock Jr.
Story / Screenplay
Howard Snyder
Story / Screenplay
John Grant
Screenplay
Robert Arthur
Producer
Milton Schwarzwald
Original Music Composer / Music Director
Charles Van Enger
Director of Photography
Edward Curtiss
Editor
Bernard Herzbrun
Art Direction
Richard H. Riedel
Art Direction
Oliver Emert
Set Decoration
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Rosemary Odell
Costume Design
Joan St. Oegger
Hairstylist
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist
David S. Horsley
Special Effects
Oscar Brodney
Writer
Layne Britton
Makeup Artist
Lillian Burkhart
Hairstylist
Gilbert Kurland
Production Manager
Joseph E. Kenney
Assistant Director
Leslie I. Carey
Sound
Robert Pritchard
Sound
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 26, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 24m
Budget$686,000
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
hotel
hypnotism
blackmail
attempted murder
slapstick
screwball comedy
elevator
cross dressing
Wiki.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff is a 1949 horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring Abbott and Costello and Boris Karloff.
In 1956, the film was re-released by Realart Pictures as a double feature with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
The film is set in a hotel. Following the murder of a prominent lawyer within the hotel, the hotel's bellboy is kept in custody at his room. The other suspects in the murder case manipulate him into signing a false confession, and then try to eliminate him. Meanwhile, the corpses of two more victims are found hidden in the bellboy's closet.
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