COLONEL MARCH INVESTIGATES (1952) ** Boris Karloff strides amongst London's gentry, wearing an eye patch and sussing them out. It's all faintly amusing, none of the aristocrats appear to be of any particular concern other than the occasional odd punt into murder. The strong point of Boris' performance, actually, is the delivery of the most particularly droll lines. Like a fencer at tea time. A thrust-and-parry fencer, you know, not an unauthorized merchant in jewels of dubious origin. For the third segment, Boris strides for once amongst the (somewhat more) common people, which could have been a disaster were it not for the theatrical attributes of Patricia Owens, whose qualities as a villainess might have been measured in something other than spades. A light romp through the bad behavior of aristocrats, then, with the occasional splash into the sunlit swamp of the urban middle class.
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