***SPOILERS*** Going to the "Red Rock Tavern" to get married private detective Jimmy Kelly, Wallace Ford, and his fiancée Marjorie Burns, Barbara Pepper, get involved with a number of murders that occur there. The killer seems to be a half bred, wolf/dog, German Shepard who ends up ripping his victims throat's out. It's later that Jimmy found out that someone was killing a number of the guests at the "Haunted Tavern" and using a fake dog head or mask in doing his ghastly work!
We start to get the picture that all these murders are being done in revenge for something the victims did a number of years ago. That's in their work as illegal diamond smugglers and the reason they all got telegrams from their killer to meet at the tavern in order for him or her to murder them! As for the other people who happen to be there, like Jimmy & Marjorie, their just collateral damage as far as the killer is concerned.
By the time the killer is revealed all the people in the tavern are locked in the basement with the by now identified killer about to pull the string or switch that would blow or gas them, in the makeshift gas chamber that he constructed, to death. It's then when in explaining why he was doing all this he goes completely mad in feeling he's about to achieve his objective, killing everyone there, and drops his guard. That's when Jimmy Kelly finding a way out of the death or gas chamber gets to him, as well as the police, to put an end to his madness.
What really stands out in the movie is the mysterious killer's reasons for murdering his victims and even more astounding the way he acted when finally revealing himself. As mad as a hatter and crazy as a junkie high on LSD his actions were far more comical then murderous. It's like this was his big chance, as a actor, to strut his stuff and be convincing but instead have him falling flat on his face and looking ridicules in doing it!
We start to get the picture that all these murders are being done in revenge for something the victims did a number of years ago. That's in their work as illegal diamond smugglers and the reason they all got telegrams from their killer to meet at the tavern in order for him or her to murder them! As for the other people who happen to be there, like Jimmy & Marjorie, their just collateral damage as far as the killer is concerned.
By the time the killer is revealed all the people in the tavern are locked in the basement with the by now identified killer about to pull the string or switch that would blow or gas them, in the makeshift gas chamber that he constructed, to death. It's then when in explaining why he was doing all this he goes completely mad in feeling he's about to achieve his objective, killing everyone there, and drops his guard. That's when Jimmy Kelly finding a way out of the death or gas chamber gets to him, as well as the police, to put an end to his madness.
What really stands out in the movie is the mysterious killer's reasons for murdering his victims and even more astounding the way he acted when finally revealing himself. As mad as a hatter and crazy as a junkie high on LSD his actions were far more comical then murderous. It's like this was his big chance, as a actor, to strut his stuff and be convincing but instead have him falling flat on his face and looking ridicules in doing it!