15 Movie Titles That Blatantly Lied To You

5. Abbott And Costello Meet The Killer, Boris Karloff

What It Suggests

That comedy duo Abbott and Costello meet Boris Karloff, who is a killer.

The Truth

Well, it's half right, because the pair do meet Boris Karloff, but the other key part of the title is wrong.

The plot here involves a mysterious killer in a hotel, who the pair believe could well be the evil Swami as played by Boris Karloff. He's definitely evil, since he and the other accused hotel guests attempt to frame Costello's Freddie for the murders (he actually tried to hyptonise him into killing himself), but their plan fails.

It actually turns out that Karloff's character isn't the killer at all, and that it was the hotel manager, played by Alan Mowbray, which would have been a far more difficult movie to market, presumably.

Incidentally, they lied again in the title of Abbott and Costello Go to Mars in which Abbott and Costello go to Venus and not Mars as intended.