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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Captain Clegg is a 1962 British film produced by Hammer, directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Peter Cushing. Although Hammer are best known for their horror movies, and this one was even released as Night Creatures in the US, it's not a particularly frightening film, and it doesn't try to be one. Instead it's really more of a lightly Gothic crime thriller, set in the late 1700s.With The Napoleonic Wars looming, Britain and France have increased their mutual tariffs, which is really too bad for any Englishman who wants fine wine, brandy, or gin. Therefore, the southeast coast quickly becomes a hotbed of smuggling, and the Royal Navy dispatches Captain Collier (Patrick Allan) to that area to investigate the village of Dymchurch, in the supposedly-haunted Romney Marshes. The village is also the burial place of the notorious pirate Captain Nathaniel Clegg, whom Collier chased halfway around the world. The town's sweet-natured vicar, Parson Blyss (Cushing, at his most stork-like) receives the sailors with all friendliness, but is peculiarly unhelpful. The audience quickly learn that Blyss is the chief of the smuggling operation, which also includes the witty village undertaker Jeremiah Mipps (the always-delightful Michael Ripper) and aptly-named innkeeper Mr. Rash (Martin Benson). Rash's young ward/waitress, Imogene (the incredibly sexy Yvonne Romain) is in love with Harry Cobtree (a young Oliver Reed), son of the local squire (Derek Francis), and they plan to run away together.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })What is the secret of the ghosts in Romney Marshes? How does it relate to the smuggling scheme? And what is the secret of Captain Clegg?A highly entertaining film, that's what.Actually an adaptation of Russell Thorndike's novel Doctor Syn. | |
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Adapted Out: Rather oddly, Syn’s "Scarecrow" Secret Identity, one of the best-known features of the source novels, largely disappears in the film. Blyss and his followers ride around dressed as scary "marsh goblins", and one of the gang stands around disguised as a scarecrow and so hidden in plain sight as their lookout, but the idea of the Scarecrow as the formidable leader of the smugglers is never even mentioned. | |
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Adaptation Name Change: In the novel Doctor Syn, on which the film is based, the central character is named — well, Doctor Syn. This film changes this to "Doctor Blyss" to avoid legal issues with Disney, who were producing their own adaptation of the story. | |
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