To make matters worse, the nurse (Dorothy Coburn) of a hospital next door is demanding that Stan and Ollie make as little noise as possible. As you can imagine this is a forlorn hope...
This is a very funny and very silly film, the story is pretty basic and largely a framework for a series of comedic situations. The slapstick doesn't always work but the film races along a such a pace that you don't have time to dwell on it when it doesn't.
Despite the pleadings of the teacher Anton (David Warbeck) that their methods are flawed, Gustav's Puritans continue to pursue and burn young girls. Meanwhile the Count inducts Freida into the dark path of the vampire. Her insatiable lust for blood really does turn the village upside down...
Although nothing too original, this is a fun Hammer horror and vampire film which takes advantage of real identical twins for some big bosomed identity switching. The film has plenty of fake blood, dubious "Satanic" rituals and a big slice of cheese. All you really want from an early 1970s Hammer horror.
While Alana (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Doc (Hart Bochner) are watching The Magician (David Copperfield), the body count starts to add up much to the consternation of the train conductor (Ben Johnson). Once the actions of Kenny are known a bitter and bloody battle for survival begins aboard the train as it steams through the night...
Although the slasher revenge theme is not too original, the setting is quite novel and adds an interesting dimension to the thrills and scares. The Magician adds a bit of mystery and cheese.
This is an incredibly inventive little film. All of the props were made twice, one normal size and the other larger so Stan and Ollie can realistically play children.
The slapstick and visual gags are standard Laurel and Hardy fare but done so well, they are easily able to carry this film on their own.
Holed up in a hut the men capture a Japanese soldier (Kenji Takaki), Bamforth forges a friendship with the man and ends up defending him when Mitchem decides the man must die, and Johnson shows a rather bloodthirsty desire to carry out that order. When it is established the Japanese are a lot closer than expected the patrol tries to retreat but is it too late?
Although studio based (with some stock footage of wild animals) the film makes the most of it's limited sets and budget to produce a realistic view of war, and it's effects on humanity. No daring chisel jawed heroes here, more like ordinary men hurled into extraordinary times and how the true man behind the facade emerges when the pressure is on.