7.6
King Kong
1933
“MORE GHOULISH GLEE THAN WHEN THEY MET FRANKENSTEIN!”
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
May 26, 19491h 24mEN
6.6
57 votes
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).
Director
Charles BartonWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$686K
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Production Companies
Universal International Pictures
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User Reviews
John Chard
7.0Tidy 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…
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