It was produced and released at least partly in order to introduce the characters and concept to foreign audiences, as it came in advance of international syndication for the film's source material the television series 70-episodes. Features about crowd-sourcing projects are for awareness purposes and not an endorsement of the product, support is given at the reader's own risk. And to recast Marilyn with a bland actress really screwed up the chemistry. He sails from the U. To defend his family's honor, Herman decides to race. Ghoulish-looking Herman Munster inherits an estate from a British uncle and takes his family--wife Lily, son Eddie, niece Marilyn, and mischief-making Grandpa--to England by boat to claim both his title and his manor house.
When the Munster family inherits a British Estate, they are met upon by some archcriminals who are using the place for a counterfeiting ring. Roger and Marilyn get together and hope to see each other again. Also in the household is creepy butler Cruickshank John Carradine, in a different role to that he played in the series. Indeed the film focuses heavily on Herman and Grandpa — which plays to the strength, of course — and Terry Thomas as Freddie, who absolutely shines in his scenes. When Lily rides horseback parallel to him, he mistakes her shouted warnings for love talk, and drives on. Cousins Grace Jeanne Arnold and Freddie are furious that the American Munsters are getting the manor, and that Herman will be Lord Munster instead of Freddie.
The family boards the famous American transatlantic passenger ocean liner in its last years to. It seems that after he left Dr Frankenstein, Herman moved to England for a while and was adopted by the Munsters. Though Grandpa turns into a wolf a couple of times in this film it is always by pill rather than through natural ability as it was in series. The thugs try to chase them away. I suppose they had to travel to make the time go by faster, but going to England really makes this romp rather stilted. In 2001, released a version of the film using the same transfer.
I'm surprised at the number of glowing reviews about this movie. The American Munsters are delighted. The Munsters donate their property for a village park, and Roger promises to visit Marilyn in the States. Neighbor Squire Moresby is a longstanding Munster rival in the Annual Shroudshire Road Race. Herman has almost instantaneous sea sickness and, in an error with a cure, Grandpa Al Lewis turns himself into a wolf with a wolf pill.
As for vampiric lore, we get very little. When he questions why, Lily Yvonne de Carlo explains that it is for the reading of a will. When the will is read they discover that he has bequeathed Herman his estate in Shroudshire, England an invented county and the title of Lord Munster. The Universal transfer is sourced from an original print and presented in its original theatrical 1. . Grandpa has to be sneaked through British immigration and customs. All attempts to scare off the Munsters fail miserably, for they are delighted by screams in the night, white-sheeted apparitions, and other ghostly phenomena.
To keep Herman quiet, Lady Effigie lies that she will inform the authorities for him. On board, Marilyn strikes up a romance with Roger Moresby, a race-driving champion. Ma-ma has received word from the mysterious crook known as the Griffin and they will simply scare the Munsters off. Grace and Freddie attempt to interfere with him winning the race, by setting up a plot to kill him. Roger is knocked unconscious, and the head of the counterfeiting ring substitutes another driver, planning harm to Herman as the race proceeds.
Later, Herman enters a race, driving Grandpa's. Spurred by rumors at the local pub, Grandpa and Herman explore their booby-trapped cellar and discover the secret - a counterfeiting room. Herman and his family donate the land and Munster Hall to the city for historic preservation. It was directed by , who also directed a number of episodes in the series. Grace and Freddie, with the help of Lady Effigie , try to get rid of the Munsters, so the estate can be theirs.
Boylan asserts his moral right to be recognised as author of all articles bar guest blogs. Desperate to be rid of the Munsters, Lady Effigie persuades Herman to save the family honor by entering an automobile race against Roger, as their families have been longtime rivals. Herman, however, driving his Dragula, a special coffin-shaped car, wins the race and unmasks his opponent, who turns out to be the barmaid at the local pub. He builds a car out of a casket and organ pipes. With the prospect of six months quarantine, the subsequent 'smuggle the wolf off ship' is another recycled gag.
Click on a plot link to find similar books! Fun, but the series — to me — is superior and this suffers from recycling and it's feature length shows up the central plot as being very lightweight. He and his wife reject Marilyn for being a Munster, despite that their Ferrari-racing son Roger has loved her since meeting her on the ship. Grandpa sneaks out of bed to find out the secret of Munster Hall: a counterfeiting operation is at work in the basement. Herman wins the race with the help of Lily. On arriving, they receive a less than effusive welcome from their foreign relatives Lady Effigie, her children Freddy and Grace, and their sinister butler Cruikshank , who are using the manor house as the headquarters of a counterfeiting ring.