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22 August 1955 (Denmark) morePlot Keywords:
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Very mild tele-series compendium moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Boris Karloff | ... | Col. March (archive footage) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Sheila Burrell | ... | Joan Forsythe (archive footage) | |
| Anthony Forwood | ... | Jim Hartley (archive footage) | |
| Sonya Hana | ... | Paula (archive footage) | |
| John Hewer | ... | John Parrish (archive footage) | |
| Ronald Leigh-Hunt | ... | Ireton Bowlder (archive footage) | |
| Roger Maxwell | ... | Maj. Rodman (archive footage) | |
| Patricia Owens | ... | Betty Hartley (archive footage) | |
| Bernard Rebel | ... | The Count (archive footage) | |
| Ewan Roberts | ... | Insp. Ames (archive footage) | |
| Joan Sims | ... | Marjorie Dawson (archive footage) | |
| Richard Wattis | ... | Cabot (archive footage) | |
| Dana Wynter | ... | Francine Rapport (archive footage) (as Dagmar Wynter) | |
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
A compendium of three adventures for Boris Karloff as the eye-patched Scotland Yard man in charge of D3 - Department for Queer Complaints (really). Stitched together (without ceremony) as a plug for the British television series, it clearly worked, since twenty-odd subsequent episodes appeared over the next four years, keeping Karloff in genial, efficient work.
Here, he investigates a bank robbery, the murder of a Japanese dancer and a young couple whose house is apparently haunted by a pair of murderous gloves. I bow to no man in my admiration for the director, a victim of the McCarthy blacklist, but he brings no distinction to this assignment, filming flatly and cheaply (Richard Wattis' nightclub appears to be no more than one table, a tiny stage, an even smaller bar, and a dressing room) and apparently most interested in getting to the end of each story.
Which leaves only the plots, and these are mild indeed. Each turns on a supposedly mysterious twist which only Colonel March's brilliantly insightful mind can discover - the culprits are never in much doubt, the question is how they thought they could get away with it - but the audience is never allowed into the deductive process. We're left with Karloff twinkling away (always a pleasure) and a lot of ropey old technique. The Endfield who made, for instance, "The underworld story", is nowhere in evidence.