Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff [Abbott and Costello Meet the Killers]

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1949. Vintage portrait photograph of Boris Karloff as Swami Talpur from the 1949 film, with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, here under the working title "Abbott and Costello Meet the Killers."

From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.

Lou Costello, the bellhop at the Lost Caverns hotel, is suspected of murder and confined to his room, when Boris Karloff as Swami Talpur attempts to hypnotize him into confessing, but Costello proves too stupid to hypnotize.

8 x 10 inches. With light even toning, else Near Fine.

[Book #165324]