Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff is a 1949 American 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

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

Dialogue

 * 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

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


 * The maddest spree of Ghoulish Glee since they met . . . Frankenstein !

Cast

 * Bud Abbott — Casey Edwards
 * Lou Costello — Freddie Phillips
 * Lenore Aubert — Angela Gordon
 * Gar Moore — Jeff Wilson
 * Donna Martell — Betty Crandall
 * Boris Karloff — Swami Talpur