Isle of the Dead

Not bad Val Lewton production that has Boris Karloff portraying to some degree a Greek soldier and takes charge of a group of people on a nearby island where they might be carrying the plague, or is it from evil demons? Starts off slowly but becomes fairly entertaining during the last half hour. Ellen Drew is very pretty and is persecuted by some of the others who are superstitious. One thing I did notice in this film is that Karloff was not real tall. Remember those big shoes in "Frankenstein"? He had them for a reason. Lewton has done better but this film is enhanced by Karloff's presence and Drew's natural beauty.