Night Creatures (Captain Clegg)

'Night Creatures' sounds like a B-movie about some unrealistic monsters, who make you laugh more than scare you. Well, it's not a B-movie perhaps even though it's not a masterpiece either.

It's a costume drama or melodrama perhaps, set in the 18th century during a time when smuggling was a good business.
In order to investigate a case of suspected smuggling, a certain Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) is sent to an English coastal town to find evidence of any contraband activity.
When arriving there, the people start to talk about mysterious swamp phantoms - "Marsh Phantoms" - who ride at night, creating fear and terrorizing the town and its inhabitants.
Collier soon becomes suspicious against the local reverend, Dr. Blyss (Peter Cushing).
Is he perhaps involved in this smuggling and in that case in what way.
Soon another question arises: Is reverend Blyss really reverend Blyss or who is he?
Are the 'phantoms' real or are they a way of diverting the attention from what is really going on 'under cover'?

This is a rather ordinary story but it's a combination between the classic 'pirate films' and a British - almost - 'Pimpernel Smith'-story although these people are perhaps fighting for causes not as noble as the one Smith fought for. Adventure, no 'good' or 'bad' people and mysterious individuals combined with some ghosts. Not at all bad for 80 minutes of entertainment.

Director: Peter Graham Scott.