"Crime is so stimulating!" So says Shirley Booth as a very chatty American tourist, traveling through the Italian countryside, involved in a very bizarre situation when she witnesses the stabbing of a French man she's taking a giant crate for to the castle of the prickly Kurt Kasznar. With an almost Igor like sidekick (Michael J. Pollard), Kasznar welcomes Booth and niece Carol Lynley into the castle, involving them in a strange adventure that an oh too friendly American like Ms. Booth can tell her canasta partners back in the states about.
Fresh off of "Hazel", Booth is an always delightful presence, but she's got herself involved in a real convoluted mess with this one. It's a TV movie with a few good location sequences but a plotline that seems to have been written after too many glasses of chianti. One rather shocking scene has Lynley witness Kasznar smothering a bird that somehow got into the castle as easily as if he was squashing a bug.
This is trying to be a light-hearted adventure comedy, but the plotline really makes no sense, and the characters are all just too bizarre to really hold interest. Booth get some really funny lines, but that doesn't necessarily make for a good film. The relationship between Kasznar and Pollard is also questionable, with the seemingly half witted Pollard none too pleased by the presence of the two women. Gayle Hunnicutt as a bizarre vixen wears a wardrobe that combines the fashion sense of Elvira and Joanne Worley. This seems to have been released in theaters overseas, which explains the fact that it does not look like your average American TV movie.
Fresh off of "Hazel", Booth is an always delightful presence, but she's got herself involved in a real convoluted mess with this one. It's a TV movie with a few good location sequences but a plotline that seems to have been written after too many glasses of chianti. One rather shocking scene has Lynley witness Kasznar smothering a bird that somehow got into the castle as easily as if he was squashing a bug.
This is trying to be a light-hearted adventure comedy, but the plotline really makes no sense, and the characters are all just too bizarre to really hold interest. Booth get some really funny lines, but that doesn't necessarily make for a good film. The relationship between Kasznar and Pollard is also questionable, with the seemingly half witted Pollard none too pleased by the presence of the two women. Gayle Hunnicutt as a bizarre vixen wears a wardrobe that combines the fashion sense of Elvira and Joanne Worley. This seems to have been released in theaters overseas, which explains the fact that it does not look like your average American TV movie.