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Budget 686,000 USD
The film was originally banned in Denmark due to the scene where corpses play cards.
The original script 'Easy Does It', was originally intended as a vehicle for Bob Hope. After the huge success of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Universal-International wanted another horror comedy with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, so the script was rewritten for them. Oddly enough, the role played by Boris Karloff was originally written for a woman.
The only Hollywood film with three of the actors' names in the title.
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.
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 (1950) a year later.
"[the Swami tries to get a hypnotized Freddie to kill himself] Swami Talpur: Perhaps you should choose the manner of your death. How would you like to die? Freddie Phillips: Old age."
"Swami Talpur: [to Freddie] You're going to commit suicide if it's the last thing you do!"
