Our designated heroic couple Peter (David Manners) and Joan Alison (Julie Bishop) are surprised during their travels through Europe when Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) is housed in their train compartment due to an error. Werdegast is off to meet an old friend, fellow war veteran and famous architect Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff, back in the days when he was still billed solely as Karloff). Poelzig now lives in the fort that he once commanded-and which he delivered to the enemy, betraying his soldiers. Werdegast went to prison, however, and the love of his life was left in Poelzig’s care-but her fate is unknown to Werdegast. Thanks to a shared bus ride and an accident of said bus, the designated heroes make it to Poelzig’s house along with Werdegast....![]()
