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MORE GHOULISH GLEE THAN WHEN THEY MET FRANKENSTEIN!

Overview

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).

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Bud Abbott

    Casey Edwards

  2. Cast 1

    Lou Costello

    Freddie Phillips

  3. Cast 1

    Boris Karloff

    Swami Talpur

  4. Cast 1

    Lenore Aubert

    Angela Gordon

  5. Gar Moore

    Jeff Wilson

  6. Cast 1

    Donna Martell

    Betty Crandall

  7. Cast 1

    Alan Mowbray

    Melton

  8. Cast 1

    James Flavin

    Insp. Wellman

  9. Cast 1

    Roland Winters

    T. Hanley Brooks

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 whod...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$686,000.00

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