{"id":18817,"date":"2017-09-10T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18817"},"modified":"2020-07-07T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:05:51","slug":"abbott-and-costello-meet-the-killer-boris-karloff-1949-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18817","title":{"rendered":"Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z091017zview_acmeetthekiller_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff<\/strong> (1949)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Charles T. Barton<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenplay: <\/strong>Hugh Wedlock Jr. &amp; Howard Snyder<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stars:<\/strong>&nbsp; Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pitch:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cIt&#8217;s time for Bud and Lou to meet Boris!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tagline:<\/strong> MORE GHOULISH GLEE THAN WHEN THEY MET FRANKENSTEIN<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Overview:<\/strong>&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When the bellboy (Costello) becomes the prime suspect of a murder in a remote hotel full of shady characters, only the hotel dick (Abbott) believes his innocence. &nbsp;The race is on to find the killer before he kills again&#8230; and the bellboy is in the killer&#8217;s sights!<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised that&nbsp;<em>Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff&nbsp;<\/em>didn&#8217;t hold up as well as I remembered it. &nbsp;I was sure it would get a &#8220;B&#8221; rating or higher. &nbsp;As a kid, it would have gotten an &#8220;A&#8221; &#8212; yet it is still fun with some good laughs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z091017zview_acmeetthekiller_photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<br \/>\n<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) Director: Charles T. Barton Screenplay: Hugh Wedlock Jr. &amp; Howard Snyder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23771,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions\/23771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}