Saturday, June 23, 2007

The Mysterious Doctor (1943)

(A small 'Cornish' village, England; during World War II)
IMDb

A traveling stranger, yeah a 'mysterious doctor' no less (Lester Matthews), disturbs the citizens of the village of Morganshead by his sudden arrival, followed shortly there after by an equally sudden disappearance. Less then an hour long programmer has local legend of the headless ghost of a mine owner, used as cover for a Nazi plot (the old Scooby-doo villain technique). Village of Morganshead populated by a colorful bunch including an earnest army officer, an MP, a semi-crippled simpleton, a comic drunk, and an innkeeper who wears a huded mask because of a disfiguring dynamite accident, as well as his sympathetic niece. Not very good.

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