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The Return of Doctor X (1939)
Directed by Vincent Sherman
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Overview
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Length 62 minutes
Actors
Humphrey Bogart | Rosemary Lane | Wayne Morris | Dennis Morgan | John Litel | Lya Lys | Huntz Hall | Charles C. Wilson | Vera Lewis | Howard C. Hickman | Olin Howland | Cliff Saum | Creighton Hale | John Ridgely | Joseph Crehan | Glenn Langan | William Hopper | Nat Carr | Loia Cheaney | Eddie Graham | John Harron | Mike Lally | Frank Mayo | John 'Skins' Miller | Jack Mower | Paul Panzer | Frank Pharr | Gwen Seager | Claude Wisberg | Ian Wolfe
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/22/2013 | Computer | Other | Owned | 3.5 stars |
| (Average) 3.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
A vampire-esque film where the blood drinker doesn’t take his meals the normal way, but has to consume the liquid to stay in his scientifically reanimated state. Bogart is awesome in a pretty atypical villain role. Plus he looks pretty badass all pale with a schock of white in his dark hair. Odd that they just quickly mention his character was given the death sentence for starving an infant to death to see how long it could go without food. Pretty dark for a film that also uses quite a bit of slapstick humor.
A good one for sure.
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