To be fair to Barbara Jo Allen here, she gives it all she has got as she tries to squeeze just about every mishap and misunderstanding into twenty minutes of light slapstick comedy. She’s “Vera” who thinks she saw magician “Bluebeard” (Barton Yarborough) get up to something especially macabre. He tells her that he’s just practicing for his stage-show, but she’s sceptical - to put it mildly. That nervousness isn’t improved when the two have to share a railway carriage and the magician’s taste for ghoulish delicacies only heightens her fears! What let’s this down is the really lacklustre writing…
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