The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
- Directed by
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Genre
- horror film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 01m
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 21 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A scientist on the run after conducting illegal regeneration experiments survives a shipwreck. He ends up on a tropical island where he uses his ability to revive the dead to control the natives and experiment on fellow survivors.
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What happens
The Mad Doctor of Market Street is a 1942 American horror film produced by Universal Pictures starring Lionel Atwill. The film was a low-budget project that used the studio's contract players and gave rising director Joseph H. Lewis an opportunity to demonstrate his versatility with little production money. The film is part of the mad scientist genre. In this case, the film's scientist performs regeneration experiments on human subjects. He survives a shipwreck and is stranded on a tropical island with the other survivors. He gains influence over the natives by demonstrating his ability to resurrect others, and uses that influence to perform involuntary experiments on the other survivors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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