Hammer veteran Freddie Francis oversaw the death throes of the British portmanteau’s glory days with this frightfully silly Asylum-esque effort for World Film Services, written by Donald Sutherland’s vampiric wife from Doctor Terror…, no less! Donald Pleasence introduces Jack Hawkins to a series of loonies, who spin tales of an imaginary tiger, a haunted, time-travelling penny farthing, and the notorious story wherein Michael Jayston dumps Joan Collins for a walking tree.
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