Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

1949 film directed by Charles Barton

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff is a 1949 film about two employees of a secluded hotel who investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.

Directed by Charles Barton. Written by John Grant, Hugh Wedlock, Jr., and Howard Snyder.
Yipes! Those Killer-Dillers are out to get the King of the Killers !  (taglines)

Freddie Phillips edit

  • Ain't I a lucky stiff? Lucky stiff? I should've never left Paterson.

Dialogue edit

Casey Edwards: It's Milford. Strickland's secretary.
Freddie Phillips: What's he hangin' around here for?
Casey Edwards: He's hang - - He's dead, you dope.

Insp. Wellman: Were you and Relia in cahoots?
Freddie Phillips: [having seen Relia's body] The last time I saw Relia, he didn't talk to me.
Insp. Wellman: If I could only find Relia. I could make him talk.
Freddie Phillips: If you could, that would be a good trick.
Sgt. Stone: He could make him talk. You don't know Wellman.
Freddie Phillips: You don't know Relia.

Abernathy: Things have been awfully dead around here.
Freddie Phillips: Much deader than you think.

Casey Edwards: Freddie, where did you that gun?
Freddie Phillips: I don't know.
Casey Edwards: Freddie, for the last time! Where did you get that gun?
Freddie Phillips: I don't know.
Casey Edwards: Where did you get that gun?
Freddie Phillips: Hey, that's not fair. You said "for the last time". I answered it.

Taglines edit

  • Yipes! Those Killer-Dillers are out to get the King of the Killers !

Cast edit

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