Blogathon Day 4: Isle of the Dead

(This post is part of the Boris Karloff Blogathon. Follow the link to learn more.)

Isle of the Dead is the last of the Val Lewton/Boris Karloff teamings that I watched, and, for my money, it was also the least of them. It starts off with a lot of promise, though. When we first meet Karloff's General Pherides he's handing another man a gun so that the second man can go outside and kill himself. The most sympathetic of our three Karloff characters, ladies and gentlemen! But of course, the...