It' is little known that Charles Quigley who plays the professor/criminologist here was the first recurring leading man of Rita Hayworth when she was starring in hour long programmers at Columbia in the late 1930's. They appeared in nearly half a dozen of these little seen films before she went into stardom and he continued on in B films until starring in the serial "The Crimson Ghost" of which this is the edited TV version of. You get all the major parts here minus the ending of the episode and the following week's beginning to where you might be tempted to turn into Kathy Bates in "Misery" where, as Annie Wilkes, she shouted "He never got out of the cockadoody car!"
Certainly there are several instances in this film where you see that possibility, and if you gauge every 15 to 20 minutes, you'll see where the cliffhanger was. Okay Warehouse it's easy to see why audiences were frustrated with cereals because it was often up to 20 weeks of cliffhangers and frustrating conclusions that led to nothing and it took forever to find out what happened to the bad guy. The Crimson Ghost is another one of many masks villains, wearing a skeleton hood as he tries to get a whole of a contraption that he can use to sell to enemy countries.
Linda Stirling and Clayton Moore co-star, with Stirling constantly in danger whether flying a plane controlled by the ghostly masked villain or wearing a mind control neck brace which if removed improperly could cause instant death. So at 100 minutes, you get a lot of action, a lot of it silly and absurd, but it's fun as a time passer and definitely a grab onto the seat nail biter. Expect a lot of red herrings as you wait for the revelation of who the Crimson Ghost is. Even the credits do not reveal who is providing their voice so you do not know even by researching unless you look at plot synopsis. So grin and bear the ridiculous parts and enjoy the fun non-stop action. It's not a brain taxer.
Certainly there are several instances in this film where you see that possibility, and if you gauge every 15 to 20 minutes, you'll see where the cliffhanger was. Okay Warehouse it's easy to see why audiences were frustrated with cereals because it was often up to 20 weeks of cliffhangers and frustrating conclusions that led to nothing and it took forever to find out what happened to the bad guy. The Crimson Ghost is another one of many masks villains, wearing a skeleton hood as he tries to get a whole of a contraption that he can use to sell to enemy countries.
Linda Stirling and Clayton Moore co-star, with Stirling constantly in danger whether flying a plane controlled by the ghostly masked villain or wearing a mind control neck brace which if removed improperly could cause instant death. So at 100 minutes, you get a lot of action, a lot of it silly and absurd, but it's fun as a time passer and definitely a grab onto the seat nail biter. Expect a lot of red herrings as you wait for the revelation of who the Crimson Ghost is. Even the credits do not reveal who is providing their voice so you do not know even by researching unless you look at plot synopsis. So grin and bear the ridiculous parts and enjoy the fun non-stop action. It's not a brain taxer.