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Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff: Directed by Charles Barton. With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Lenore Aubert. Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.
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- Comedy, Crime, Horror
- Charles Barton
- 1949-08-22
Oct 29, 2014 · Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) – Cinema Crazed. Posted on October 29, 2014 by Felix Vasquez. In this follow up to “Meet Frankenstein,” Abbott and Costello don’t so much meet Boris Karloff, as they do a character Karloff plays named Swami Talpur.
Back at Universal, they returned to horror comedy with Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949). The pair was sidelined again for several months when Costello suffered a relapse of rheumatic fever. They returned to the screen in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950).
Sep 11, 2020 · Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) Directed by: Charles T. Barton. Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Freddie Phillips (Lou Costello) is a hapless bellboy who is suspected of murder.
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Sep 8, 2019 · In truth, the only film that qualifies as legitimate noir is the 1949 oddity Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff. The film’s original poster. I use the word “oddity” because the film is the rare Abbott and Costello vehicle that fully commits to its genre.
Nov 30, 2020 · In fact, Boris Karloff is in very little of Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, which is a shame. As he proved on stage in Arsenic and Old Lace and later in films like The Raven (1963), Boris could be very amusing.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff is a 1949 horror comedy starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and co-starring (who else) Boris Karloff. The film was originally written with famed comic actor Bob Hope in mind, but after Universal purchased the script, they retooled it to star their own high-earning comedy actors.
