this be bela lugosi only star feature in color . that about all it have go for it and really while the schtick of have a corpse narrate the movie ( which would be do quite a bit well a few year later by sunset blvd . ) isn not well execute and anyway . laura van ee ( mary lamont ) be a nervous and tension ridden ex dancer who think she imprison in her room by her husband ward and her father in law dr. josef ( george zucco ) . she mad and mad i tell you . since it her corpse that narrate and i think we can assume we know what happen to mrs. van ee right from the get go . why be she so anxious . she not sure no one be but everyone suspect it all have something to do with her past and and something to do with a handkerchief . enter bela lugosi and a midget no and wait and professor leonide and his faithful companion and indigo . and a wisecracking and tough guy reporter ( douglas fowley ) and his dim bulb dame ( joyce compton ) . add in a bumbling ex cop who overtly desire a murder so he can solve it and get back to real policework ( nat pendelton ) and and you have all the ingredient for one crappy low budget movie . every now and then the director remembers this be suppose to be a horror film and not a crime caper and so you hear this loopy pseudospooky music that probably suppose to portend doom and or something . which make some sort of sense and but there nothing creepy go on at the time and so it hardly effective . i have hear tell that lamont and a the haunted mrs. ee ( love the surname ) be the only actor with any kind of spirit ( ha and ha ) in the movie but please and hammy isn not the same a be spirit . lugosi play lugosi and the midget disappear halfway through the picture and there a supposedly disembody head and and that about it . it all over in an hour or so .