Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) on Netflix
Passed19491h 24mComedyCrimeHorror
The Lost Caverns Resort Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips finds attorney Amos Strickland shot dead and is implicated. Detective Casey Edwards tries to clear him as the guests make him a scapegoat.
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Plot summary
Attorney Amos Strickland arrives at the Lost Caverns Resort Hotel, where Freddie Phillips works as a bellhop. Freddie makes an empty threat toward Strickland and is fired soon after. When Freddie goes to Strickland's suite to apologize, he finds the lawyer dead from a gunshot wound. Several of Strickland's former clients are staying at the hotel, and each has a reason to resent him. They make Freddie their scapegoat, while house detective Casey Edwards tries to clear him. Inspector Wellman and Sgt. Stone keep Freddie in custody in his own hotel room. Freddie and Casey set out to identify the person responsible while avoiding the resort's violent guests.
Cast
- Gar Mooreas Jeff Wilson
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
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- The part Boris Karloff played was written as a woman named Madame Switzer in the shooting script, then titled Abbott and Costello Meet the Killers; Karloff was hired five days before shooting and the character was switched to a swami.
- The script, first titled Easy Does It, was written for actor-comedian Bob Hope, but Universal bought the rights and reworked it as a vehicle for Abbott and Costello.
- Australia and New Zealand cut every scene featuring a corpse before distribution, and Denmark banned the film outright over the scene in which corpses play cards.
- When shooting finished, Lou Costello was bedridden for months by a relapse of the rheumatic fever he had first fought in 1943, and the duo made no further film together until 1950's Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion.
