There's just something bizarrely fun about watching Bela Lugosi in the middle of a movie where he is the only element of an old school B&W horror flick in evidence. It's as if he was dropped into a sub-par espionage plot and began picking off the bad guys, one murder at a time.
He's the only really good part to the movie, but he's enough not only to make it worth watching, but to make you giggle about it for hours after the fact.
I hadn't thought about it like that, but you are exactly right. I didn't enjoy the movie because the poorly-written summary I read of it had me confused. I kept trying to reconcile what I read with what I was seeing, and it didn't work. If it hadn't been for Bela I probably would have turned the movie off half-way through.
Stand by for Ludicrous Speed......
i am in agreement about Mr. Lugosi - i dont think ive ever seen him where he isnt interesting, if not fun to watch.
the butler was very good, though. the undercover female cop posing as the neice wasn't bad, either.