Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff is like the 1940s equivalent of clickbait. It promises you a lot while delivering very little. While Abbott and Costello do indeed "meet" Boris Karloff in this movie, he is not the killer, nor is his role nearly as prominent as the title suggests. Costello plays Freddie Philips, a bellboy for a hotel who enrages guest Amos Strickland (Nicholas Joy) and ends up getting fired as a result. Philips, mad about this, threatens Strickland and this results in him becoming the primary suspect when Strickland is murdered. House detective Casey Edwards (Abbott), believing Philips to be too dumb to commit the murder, attempts to help him clear his name, while also having to deal with a group of former clients of Strickland's, including Angela Gordon (Lenore Aubert) and Swami Talpur (Boris Karloff). When this film first started, I thought it actually seemed pretty promising. Costello's threat to Strickland made it seem like he...