Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff | |
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Directed by | Charles Barton |
Screenplay by | Hugh Wedlock, Jr. Howard Snyder John Grant |
Story by | Hugh Wedlock Jr. Howard Snyder |
Produced by | Robert Arthur |
Starring | Bud Abbott Lou Costello Boris Karloff |
Cinematography | Charles Van Enger |
Edited by | Edward Curtiss |
Music by | Milton Schwarzwald |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal-International |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $744,245[2] |
Box office | $1,850,000[3][4] |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff[a] is a 1949 horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring Abbott and Costello and Boris Karloff.
In 1956, the film was re-released by Realart Pictures as a double feature with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
The film is set in a hotel. Following the murder of a prominent lawyer within the hotel, the hotel's bellboy is kept in custody at his room. The other suspects in the murder case manipulate him into signing a false confession, and then try to eliminate him. Meanwhile, the corpses of two more victims are found hidden in the bellboy's closet.
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