i saw this movie when i be a teenager and totally dedicate to be scar by most horror film i saw . this movie and i well remember and give me some great chill which build to the end . i buy the dvd recently and especially for halloween which of course and it arrive 3 day after . anyway and i be not disappointed with the movie . it move along nicely from somewhat sinister setting and a mismatch of people who become isolated due to the threat of plague . the man in charge and a greek general ( well play by boris karloff ) take over when he suspect the possibility of pass the illness to his troop on the mainland . what interest me most be not that the picture wasn not as well do a i originally think and but that the character have so much more depth than i imagine . the general be not an evil tyrant and the housekeeper be not an old witch egg him on out of her envy toward the lovely and young woman . she still seem like an old witch and but this time around i felt her belief in the supernatural and understand her fear which she pass along to the general who have be bring up with the same superstition . a the first victim succumbs to a mysterious illness and then his wife apparently die of the same the general mind becomes affect by the old way and he fall prey to imagination . it be not the all out scary picture i remember and but it be certainly well do ( good old val lewton and company ) . it move along smoothly and swiftly and build to a very rational and chilling end . i enjoy it immensely .