
Geronimo1967
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. Shes Vera who thinks she saw magician Bluebeard (Barton Yarborough) get up to something especially macabre. He tells her that hes just practicing for his stage-show, but shes sceptical - to put it mildly. That nervousness isnt improved when the two have to share a railway carriage and the magicians taste for ghoulish delicacies only heightens her fears! What lets this down is the really lacklustre writing which doesnt really sustain the joke after the first five minutes, and leaves the enthusiastic Miss Allen exposed - despite her genuinely decent efforts to kee...