He plays the apparently dying Professor Morlant who leaves precise instructions that he be buried with a jewel "The Eternal Light " at an Egyptian shrine he's made in his basement in order to gain immortality. Of course everyone else in the film starting with his servant Laing (Ernest Thesiger ) just wants the jewel for more earthly reasons.
Karloff does his best to insert some menace but much of the film seems more like a crime caper than a horror film. It's also badly lit, poorly choreographed and the hero and heroine are about as interesting as last week's lottery numbers. It's notable for Ralph Richardson's film debut as a bogus vicar and I liked Edward Hardwicke as Broughton , the solicitor with no social skills but there's really nothing else to see here.
Dorothy Hyson ( as Betty Harlon )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Dorothy was from Chicago but spent much of her life in the UK. She spent more time on the stage than on the screen and her film career was almost over by the forties. She worked as a code breaker at Bletchley Park during the war where she met her second husband the actor Anthony Quayle. Thereafter she largely retired from acting to bring up her family. She died in 1996 aged 81.
Kathleen Harrison ( as Kaney )
Sex : Betty's spinster companion clearly wants it with the Egyptian villain pursuing the jewel but alas he's not interested.
Death : Survives
Kathleen was a very popular comic actress who carried on appearing in films down to the seventies. She was originally from Blackburn. She died in 1995 aged 103.
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