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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Howard Warren Comstock (play) &
Allen C. Miller (play) ...
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Release Date:
27 August 1932 (USA) more
Tagline:
Out-Thrills Them All!
Plot:
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(4 articles)
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Beware The Full Moon & What It Brings! more (36 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Lionel Atwill | ... | Dr. Jerry Xavier |
| Fay Wray | ... | Joanne 'Joan' Xavier |
| Lee Tracy | ... | Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter |
| Preston Foster | ... | Dr. Wells (Academy of Surgical Research) |
| John Wray | ... | Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research |
| Harry Beresford | ... | Dr. Duke, Academy of Surgical Research |
| Arthur Edmund Carewe | ... | Dr. Rowitz, Academy of Surgical Research |
| Leila Bennett | ... | Mamie, Xavier's Maid |
| Robert Warwick | ... | Police Commissioner Stevens |
| George Rosener | ... | Otto, Dr. X's Butler |
| Willard Robertson | ... | Detective O'Halloran |
| Thomas E. Jackson | ... | Daily World Editor (as Thomas Jackson) |
| Harry Holman | ... | Mike, Waterfront Policeman |
| Mae Busch | ... | Cathouse Madame |
| Tom Dugan | ... | The Sheriff |
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Runtime:
76 min
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Color (2-strip Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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USA:Approved (theatrical) | USA:Unrated (DVD)
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The New York waterfront sequences were shot on the still standing Twinkletoes (1926) set left over from the 1926 Colleen Moore vehicle, in which in stood in for London's Limehouse District. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: As Dr. Xavier displays the wax figures of the murder victims, on the first figure, that of the "woman of the streets", the left hand can be seen trembling slightly. more
Quotes:
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter:
Are you going swimming with me in the morning?
Joanne 'Joan' Xavier:
No thanks. Good night.
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter:
What will you do if I start to sink and yell for help?
Joanne 'Joan' Xavier:
Throw you an anvil. Good night!
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Agitato more
FAQ
What does this film have to do with "The Return of Dr. X" (1939)?more
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A creepy laboratory where eccentric doctors engage in bizarre experiments. An intrepid reporter & a beautiful young woman involving themselves in terrible danger. And a fiendish strangler who only strikes during the full moon...
DOCTOR X does have an absurd plot, but it is undeniably entertaining to watch. Much of the credit for this must go to the look of the film. Art Director Anton Grot designed some very spooky interior sets. The Max Factor make-up is striking. And both elements are enhanced because this was one of the first movies to be shot in two-strip Technicolor.
Lee Tracy, one of the most enjoyable actors of the early 1930's, plays another in his long line of fast-talking wise-crackers - this time a newspaperman out to get a big story. Fay Wray is lovely as always & gets to use her famous scream (a year before KING KONG). Lionel Atwill hams it up a bit as the instigator of many of the more unusual elements in the plot.