In the 1930s and 40s, if a producer had a tiny budget, a short shooting schedule and a script about a kindly professional who leads a double life as a mad murderer, they pretty much went straight to Bela Lugosi. This is the one that he made in England for Associated British. It’s also the only British film to recieve their Censor Board’s “H” rating (for “horrific”). Otherwise, it’s the exact same stuff that Bela was making in the US. He’s a perfectly polite insurance man who also sponsors a home for the blind. Sweet guy! Too bad he’s also in the middle of a money-making scheme that results in several drowned men who wash up from the Thames. Scotland Yard is on the case though Bela’s plan is so clumsy—all of the victims die the same way and all are blatantly connected to his insurance company—that your average Chess Club could probably figure out this one. See it for Bela’s reliable presence and for his memorable henchman (Wilfred Walter), who looks like a cross between Karloff’s Frankenstein monster and an ape.