Kristi's relationship with her in-laws is also strained, as she also wants the alcoholism addressed. When she witnesses her father-in-law drunk driving and nearly kill a kid she demands some action and the son confronts his father in a fishing boat to no avail. But the family slowly falls apart...
A fair melodrama and has a powerful message, which is laid on thick. Well structured and perfectly watchable.
The local police chief Joubert (Harold Huber) enlists Chan's help after the murder of a courier carrying bonds, which is just as well as he is pretty hapless otherwise. The bonds are owned by Karnoff (Sidney Blackmer), who has a bitter rival in Savarin (Edward Raquello).
Karnoff's wife (Kay Linaker) meanwhile, is being blackmailed by the bartender Rogers (George Lynn) who indeed has had some of Karnoff's bonds. When Rogers winds up dead too, could Karnoff be the culprit or is it Karnoff's assistant Gordon (Robert Kent), who is mixed up with Savarin's female acquaintance Evelyn (Virginia Field)...
This is classic Charlie Chan fare. A complicated crime, the usual semi-comedic antics from the son, and cod-Chinese philosophy. Charlie Chan discovers the only clue that can uncover the true culprit. The Monte Carlo setting adds a bit of extra glamour to a wonderful little film.
Then the children of the village start to die, killed by vampires. The blood of the slain used to bring the Count back to life. Can the villagers led by the Mayor (Thorley Walters) and including the heroic young Anton (John Moulder-Brown) stop him once and for all?
A truly excellent horror, packed full of the macabre and erotic vampiric savagery. Somehow a traditional circus and vampires really go together. Sci-fi icons David Prowse and Lalla Ward also star.
Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard play a couple of small time con artists who have the fruitful scheme of pretending to lose a valuable ring and then tricking people to hand over cash for rubbish. One of their unsuspecting mugs is the phoney mystic Professor Goulash (William Blaisdell). However, his daughter Miss Goulash (Bebe Daniels) sees through Harold and Snub's scheme and tricks them out of their money!
A charming comedy short. Harold Lloyd plays a bad guy (of sorts) for a change, the film is notable more for it's visual humour than all-out slapstick.
But then they discover the island is also inhabited by drunk rough men and strange emotionless guys in black jumpers. An ancestor of Dr Frankenstein (John Carradine) - who randomly appears in visions ranting about golden threads - lives on the island too (Katharine Victor as Sheila Frankenstein - yes really) and is conducting various demented experiments to create an army of mutants. The scientists require the blood and flesh of our visitors and the young girls (of course). This sets the scene for one of the worse showdowns and final battles ever...
Oh the young girls are apparently aliens (of course). Nothing really makes sense with this film, especially as more and more randomness is thrown in as it progresses, you get the impression the script was about half a side of A4 and the rest was made up as they went along.
Low budget (maybe should say zero budget) drivel that, despite the weirdness, is rather boring much of the time with little going on though the final battle is worth a watch due to it's sheer inanity. The four balloonists are so bland as characters its hard to remember much about them, you will remember the Frankenstein Monster when he finally appears however. You'll see better efforts at the average fancy dress party!