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

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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