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Night
Creatures (1962) – P. G. Scott
Hammer tries their hand at the oft-told
tale of Dr. Syn (here renamed Dr. Blyss), who defies the King’s men and their
taxes to smuggle brandy and gin and deliver the proceeds to the poor. Disney’s film starring Patrick McGoohan is
perhaps better known but with Peter Cushing in the lead, the Hammer version is
solid enough with some creepy moments out on the marsh (where the smugglers
pretend to be phantoms) added to up the horror quotient. Probably there is more bustling about than
true action here but things still feel adventuresome and suitably enticing with
secret passages and men in scarecrow costumes and all that. For only 81 minutes, what more can you ask?
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