Discover
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Robert Pritchard
Sound -
Charles Barton
Director -
Frank Skinner
Music -
Leith Stevens
Music -
Lloyd Ward
Camera Operator -
Milton Schwarzwald
Original Music Composer -
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist -
Edward Curtiss
Editor
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John Chard 5/16/2024 3:22:13 PM
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
Boris Karloff
Swami TalpurJames Flavin
Insp. WellmanLou Costello
Freddie PhillipsDonna Martell
Betty CrandallMarjorie Bennett
Second Maid (uncredited)Murray Alper
Joe, Reporter (uncredited)Morgan Farley
Gregory MilfordPercy Helton
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