Once again you know who the villain is in this short B mystery, the last of the John Howard series that managed a two year run and seven films. This time, he manages to get down the aisle with longtime fiancee, Heather Angel, or at least in a dream, and that leads to a sequence of flashbacks where Drummond compares marriage to his love of adventure. Angel's got a new aunt in this, the nagging Elizabeth Patterson, not as loveable as Zeffie Tilbury, but still funny in small doses. H. B. Warner shows up again as the head of Scotland Yard, but has little to do.
The villain this time around is Leo G. Carroll who has quite a few resourceful ways of dispatching of his enemies including a room that crushes its victims and impales them, like something out of an Edgar Allan Poe story. There are lots of good things here, and the conclusion in a Dracula's castle like basement is exciting. But the fun is not as frequent with the mystery surrounding a bunch of civil war era memorabilia leading to a convoluted stretch of events that are more perplexing than entertaining. Reginald Denny adds some comedy playing a truly clumsy character.
The villain this time around is Leo G. Carroll who has quite a few resourceful ways of dispatching of his enemies including a room that crushes its victims and impales them, like something out of an Edgar Allan Poe story. There are lots of good things here, and the conclusion in a Dracula's castle like basement is exciting. But the fun is not as frequent with the mystery surrounding a bunch of civil war era memorabilia leading to a convoluted stretch of events that are more perplexing than entertaining. Reginald Denny adds some comedy playing a truly clumsy character.