Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)


Directed by William Nigh
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)

A private detective is hired to find the mysterious Dr. Rx, who is wanted for a string of killings. He follows up some clues, bickers with the police and marries his girlfriend. His manservant is Mantan Moreland, who along with Shemp Howard provides comic relief. The identity of Dr. Rx is never in doubt, Lionel Atwill in thick spectacles, but it's not revealed until the very end when the detective is kidnapped and brought to his "mad scientist" lab and almost killed by a man in a gorilla suit.

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