"The Rogues' Tavern" is a B-movie and like most Bs, it features a lot of second-tier actors. However, even for a B, some of the acting is simply god-awful. Now the leads (Wallace Ford and Barbara Pepper) are just fine...but that guy who plays Bert at the hotel is about the worst actor I've ever seen. And, a few of the others aren't a whole lot better!!
Jimmy and Marjorie (Ford and Pepper) are out looking for a Justice of the Peace, as they want to get married. When they stumble upon a weird and spooky(?) old hotel, suddenly folks start dying and it's all blamed upon a wild dog! Obviously the doggy didn't do it...not unless it can cut phone lines and kills without biting anyone! But still, a few of the folks think that if they kill the dog, their problems will be solved. But it soon becomes apparent that SOMEONE has invited the folks there to kill them all...and Jimmy is going to investigate.
This is a bad film and aside from bad acting the story often doesn't make sense. A dog is blamed for the deaths and a killer is using a dog costume of sorts! This makes no sense at all. What also makes no sense is the camerawork early in the film where there is an out of focus and out of frame closeup of Joan Woodbury. It looks amateurish and should have been redone....but reshoots often weren't done with cheap B-movies. The wind sound effects are also amateurish--either being too loud and too invasive to the story or non-existent. What's funny is that although the wind sounds as if they are in a hurricane at times, folks go outside and it's not windy at all!! Overall, a terrible film that is poorly made is practically every possible way.
By the way, Barbara Pepper later came to fame playing Mrs. Zipfel on "Green Acres".
Jimmy and Marjorie (Ford and Pepper) are out looking for a Justice of the Peace, as they want to get married. When they stumble upon a weird and spooky(?) old hotel, suddenly folks start dying and it's all blamed upon a wild dog! Obviously the doggy didn't do it...not unless it can cut phone lines and kills without biting anyone! But still, a few of the folks think that if they kill the dog, their problems will be solved. But it soon becomes apparent that SOMEONE has invited the folks there to kill them all...and Jimmy is going to investigate.
This is a bad film and aside from bad acting the story often doesn't make sense. A dog is blamed for the deaths and a killer is using a dog costume of sorts! This makes no sense at all. What also makes no sense is the camerawork early in the film where there is an out of focus and out of frame closeup of Joan Woodbury. It looks amateurish and should have been redone....but reshoots often weren't done with cheap B-movies. The wind sound effects are also amateurish--either being too loud and too invasive to the story or non-existent. What's funny is that although the wind sounds as if they are in a hurricane at times, folks go outside and it's not windy at all!! Overall, a terrible film that is poorly made is practically every possible way.
By the way, Barbara Pepper later came to fame playing Mrs. Zipfel on "Green Acres".