Bela Lugosi starred in some weird-arse projects during his career, especially towards the end of his life, none more so than British comedy starring a man in a dress. The plot involves a scientist who think he’s a vampire on the lose in Britain, kidnapping women, having robots, wrapping people as mummies. But he’s stopped by said man in a dress and some of his mates.
Lugosi played able straight man to a variety of comedians throughout his career: Abbott and Costello, the Dead End Kids. He’s pretty good, seems to be into that part – of course, that may have been the morphine. The film is entirely silly, too silly to take offence by it. I mean, they throw in everything but the kitchen sink: a musical number which seems to have been recorded in the studio while filming, heaps of slapstick, a finale involving a fake robot chasing the hero (ine) around a house and a chase, Lugosi has an engaging entourage of side-kicks. This was produced and directed by John Gilling who later did work for Hammer.
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