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Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

Director(s) Charles Barton
Producer(s) Robert Arthur
Top Genres Comedy, Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Top Topics Detectives
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) was a Comedy - Mystery Film directed by Charles Barton and produced by Robert Arthur.

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Swami Talpur: [to Freddie] You're going to commit suicide if it's the last thing you do!
Insp. Wellman: I'm going to locate Milford and Relia if I have to take this hotel apart with my own hands.
Casey Edwards: [seeing one of Freddie's booby traps] That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen.
Freddie Phillips: Oh yeah? Well let me tell you something, if the murderer comes in here alone, somebody else is gonna carry him out.
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.
Abernathy: Things have been awfully dead around here.
Freddie Phillips: Much deader than you think.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff Facts
The film was originally banned in Denmark due to the scene where corpses play cards.
The original script 'Easy Does It', was originally intended as a vehicle for Bob Hope. After the huge success of Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Universal-International wanted another "horror" comedy with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, so the script was rewritten for them. Oddly enough, the role played by Boris Karloff was originally written for a woman.
After filming was completed, Lou Costello was bedridden for several months due to a relapse of rheumatic fever, which he originally battled in 1943. As a result, the duo did not make another film together until Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, a year later.
The role eventually played by Boris Karloff was originally a female character named Madame Switzer in the final shooting script which was then titled, 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Killers'. Five days before shooting, Karloff was hired and the character was changed to a swami.
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