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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).
Casey Edwards
Freddie Phillips
Swami Talpur
Angela Gordon
Betty Crandall
Melton
Insp. Wellman
T. Hanley Brooks
Amos Strickland
Sgt. Stone
Gregory Milford
Mrs. Hargreave
Abernathy
Mrs. Grimsby
Lawrence Crandall
Joe, Reporter (uncredited)
Dry Cleaning Man (uncredited)
Second Maid (uncredited)
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
May 26, 1949
Casey Edwards
Freddie Phillips
Swami Talpur
Angela Gordon
Betty Crandall
Melton
Insp. Wellman
T. Hanley Brooks
Amos Strickland
Sgt. Stone
Gregory Milford
Mrs. Hargreave
Abernathy
Mrs. Grimsby
Lawrence Crandall
Joe, Reporter (uncredited)
Dry Cleaning Man (uncredited)
Second Maid (uncredited)
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
Similar to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
