Top billed cast

1. 

   Bud Abbott

   Casey Edwards

2. 

   Lou Costello

   Freddie Phillips

3. 

   Boris Karloff

   Swami Talpur

4. 

   Lenore Aubert

   Angela Gordon

5. 

   Gar Moore

   Jeff Wilson

6. 

   Donna Martell

   Betty Crandall

7. 

   Alan Mowbray

   Melton

8. 

   James Flavin

   Insp. Wellman

9. 

   Roland Winters

   T. Hanley Brooks

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2015-05-05

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...read the rest

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2. Clue72%
3. Tower of Terror62%
4. The Honey Pot64%
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6. A Shot in the Dark71%
7. The Fearless Vampire Killers69%
8. Dave Made a Maze63%
9. Sherlock Jr.80%
10. Murder by Death71%
11. Scooby-Doo61%
12. Shadow of the Thin Man69%
13. The 'Burbs68%
14. Maniac61%
15. Hail, Caesar!59%
16. Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster62%
17. Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire71%
18. The Ghost Breakers65%
19. The Little Shop of Horrors62%
20. The Monster Club58%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$686,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• hotel
• blackmail
• attempted murder
• slapstick comedy
• cross dressing
• black and white
• screwball comedy
• hypnotism
• elevator