Review – The Mysterious Doctor

For a movie that barely makes a 60 minute running time, this sure does pack a lot of weirdness into a small amount of space. In the first half of the 1940s, even horror movies often ended up working for the war effort in some way. So here tin miners in England have been frightened away from their jobs by a headless phantom, costing the motherland access to a badly-needed resource. The whodunit that ensues is bound to involve a Nazi saboteur, but I admit I was disappointed when the culprit turned out to be a life-long limey with distant German ancestors. The once-a-kraut-always-a-kraut racism was an unwelcome element from this distant time and place in film history. Mildly amusing