Review of The Phantom Light

Lively, leggy Binnie Hale (when her legs are on display, it's hard to focus on anything else on the screen) and deadpan-funny Gordon Harker fail to salvage this padded non-starter: it spends more than half its running time getting character A, and then character B, and then character C to the lighthouse by various means when no viewer cares at all how they got there; the only chance this movie had to be exciting is if they had all arrived at the same location within the first 10 minutes. The lighthouse itself is a great, atmospheric setting, but it goes perhaps without saying that the "phantom" of the title is a red herring and the solution to the mystery is a mundane one. ** out of 4.