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Doctor X (1932) More at IMDbPro »

• This is the film for which Michael Curtiz is quoted as saying, "This will make your blood curl!"
  
  
• The play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 9 February 1931 and had 80 performances.
  
  
• Warner Bros. paid $5,000 for the rights to the play.
  
  
• The wax statues of the murder victims melted under the hot lights needed for the Technicolor cameras, so real actors were hired to stand in for them.
  
  
• Contrary to Technicolor's edict, Warners shot a black-and-white version of "Doctor X." At least two scenes in the black-and-white version use different takes than the color one: the scene with Lee Tracy and Mae Busch in the house of prostitution scene and the sequence with Tracy in the skeleton room.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• For a time Warner Brothers did not have a print of the original Technicolor version and it was assumed to be lost. The Technicolor version was finally discovered and restored by the UCLA Archives.
  
  

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