Movie Cosmos - Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Description:

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 Cast >

Bud Abbott

As Casey Edwards

Lou Costello

As Freddie Phillips

Boris Karloff

As Swami Talpur

Lenore Aubert

As Angela Gordon

Gar Moore

As Jeff Wilson

Donna Martell

As Betty Crandall

Alan Mowbray

As Melton

James Flavin

As Insp. Wellman

Roland Winters

As T. Hanley Brooks

Nicholas Joy

As Amos Strickland

Mikel Conrad

As Sgt. Stone

Morgan Farley

As Gregory Milford

Victoria Horne

As Mrs. Hargreave

Percy Helton

As Abernathy

Claire Du Brey

As Mrs. Grimsby

Harry Hayden

As Lawrence Crandall

Vincent Renno

As Mike Relia

Murray Alper

As Joe, Reporter (uncredited)

Bobby Barber

As Dry Cleaning Man (uncredited)

Marjorie Bennett

As Second Maid (uncredited)

Gail Bonney

As First Maid (uncredited)

Harry Brown

As Medical Examiner (uncredited)

Jack Chefe

As Barber (uncredited)

Eddie Coke

As Reporter (uncredited)

Beatrice Gray

As Woman (uncredited)

Billy Gray

As Boy With Bow and Arrow (uncredited)

Patricia Hall

As Manicurist (uncredited)

Arthur Hecht

As Photographer (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

As Room Service Waiter (uncredited)

Ed Randolph

As Bootblack (uncredited)

Phil Shepard

As Bellboy (uncredited)

Billy Snyder

As Reporter (uncredited)

Frankie Van

As Bozzo (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Charles Barton

Director

Reviews:

John Chard (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

2015-05-05