Doctor X
1932 · Movie · 76 min · ★ 6.0 · 77% critics
A fast-talking reporter inserts himself into a hunt for a full-moon serial killer linked to a medical research institute. As police pressure mounts, a scientist gathers a handful of suspicious colleagues in an eerie house to expose the culprit through a tense late-night experiment.
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Details
- Years
- 1932
- Release date
- 1932-08-03
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 76 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 (83 votes)
- Box office
- $594,000
- Budget
- $224,000
About
You may enjoy this if you like vintage mystery-horror with a strange color look, spooky labs, and a playful pulp tone, somewhere between Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Spiral Staircase; Not for you if broad comic relief ruins suspense for you.
Pros: eerie atmosphere; unusual early color; fun pulpy mystery | Cons: grating comic relief; silly science; uneven acting
Themes
- new york city
- experiment
- full moon
- morgue
- mad scientist
- reporter
- series of murders
- pre-code
- scalpel
Cast & crew
Lionel Atwill
as Dr. Jerry Xavier
Fay Wray
as Joanne Xavier
Lee Tracy
as Lee Taylor
Preston Foster
as Dr. Wells
John Wray
as Dr. Haines
Harry Beresford
as Dr. Duke
Arthur Edmund Carewe
as Dr. Rowitz
Leila Bennett
as Mamie
Robert Warwick
as Commissioner Stevens
- GR
George Rosener
as Otto, Dr. Xavier's Butler
Directed by Michael Curtiz