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

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.

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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.

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Abernathy: Things have been awfully dead around here.
Freddie Phillips: Much deader than you think.

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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.
The film was originally banned in Denmark due to the scene where corpses play cards.
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.
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