It's always been my opinion that in the matter of wartime B pictures with a propaganda bent the British were far better than the Americans. Especially with a lot of British players from our British colony in Hollywood participating in this potboiler that has not aged well.
With all that mysterious fog it's only natural that the the people of a Cornwall village react suspiciously to Lester Matthews who says he's on a walking tour. Folks just didn't do that in wartime Great Britain.
What Matthews finds is that there's an abandoned tin mine that the locals won't work because of a mysterious ghost who chops people's heads off because he doesn't have one himself and that ain't fair. Some real decapitations occur.
At the same time British RAF officer on leave Bruce Lester and the local squire John Loder are saying we got to beat Hitler and the King needs that tin.
What happens is that one of the villagers is a traitor and he's been doing the killings and spreading the rumors. Like Sherlock Holmes and the Voice Of Terror these Germans plan for the long haul even before there was a Nazi party.
Shame on those from the British colony who spread this paranoia about. It's about as sensible as some of the worst anti-Communist films. In fact the Royal Family in the last World War had to change it's House name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the more British sounding Windsor. The British players knew that even if we didn't.
Eleanor Parker was one of the few Americans in the movie and I'm sure she shuddered at the mention of it. Well, a girl has to start somewhere.
With all that mysterious fog it's only natural that the the people of a Cornwall village react suspiciously to Lester Matthews who says he's on a walking tour. Folks just didn't do that in wartime Great Britain.
What Matthews finds is that there's an abandoned tin mine that the locals won't work because of a mysterious ghost who chops people's heads off because he doesn't have one himself and that ain't fair. Some real decapitations occur.
At the same time British RAF officer on leave Bruce Lester and the local squire John Loder are saying we got to beat Hitler and the King needs that tin.
What happens is that one of the villagers is a traitor and he's been doing the killings and spreading the rumors. Like Sherlock Holmes and the Voice Of Terror these Germans plan for the long haul even before there was a Nazi party.
Shame on those from the British colony who spread this paranoia about. It's about as sensible as some of the worst anti-Communist films. In fact the Royal Family in the last World War had to change it's House name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the more British sounding Windsor. The British players knew that even if we didn't.
Eleanor Parker was one of the few Americans in the movie and I'm sure she shuddered at the mention of it. Well, a girl has to start somewhere.