The Return of Doctor X (Vincent Sherman, 1939) DVDRip VOSE

[Jma32]

Fishburne already posted some movies from this collection, so here comes some more:



2. The Return of Dr. X (1939)

THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X (Warner Brothers, 1939) directed by Vincent Sherman, is in retrospect, not a sequel to the 1932 early two-strip Technicolor mystery, DOCTOR X (First National) starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray, but a Grade Z programmer surprisingly headed by a very interesting cast of non-horror actors, including Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan and Humphrey Bogart(!) working with second-hand material from a screenplay by Lee Katz. In spite of what is displayed on screen, in capable hands this might have worked as one of the finer "B" films of the horror or science fiction genre. Production values, though, are on a bigger scale than any poverty row horror film from Monogram Studios, and slightly beneath what Universal would have produced a few short years prior to distributing similar type quickies made by the mid 1940s. THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X, however, as the title indicates, is a story about a scientist, and the scientist in question is not Doctor X, but a Doctor Francis Flegg (John Litel), who may or may be the link to a series of mysterious murders, but the possibility in having some dark secret regarding his profession and his questionable experiments with blood.

The story begins with Walter Barnett (Wayne Morris), a hapless reporter from Wichita, Kansas, working for the Morning Dispatch in New York City arranging for an interview with a European actress named Angela Merrova (Lya Lys) who is currently staying at the Park Vista Hotel. Later that day, Barnett (whose spoken surname sounds more like Garrett) enters her hotel room to find her dead, with indications of being stabbed through the heart. After telephoning the news to the city editor about his discovery, the news about Merrova's death makes the front page. However, instead of landing a job promotion, Barnett is called to his editor's office to find not only Angela Merrova to be sitting there very much alive (in spite of her dead white appearance), but to be suing the Morning Dispatch for $100,000 for damages on her reputation. Fired from his job, Barnett comes to Jules Memorial Hospital where he tells his interne friend, Michael Rhodes (Dennis Morgan), of the situation, which he finds hard to believe. Stanley Rodgers (John Ridgely), a blood doaner specialist scheduled to arrive at the hospital for a transfusion prior to an operation to be performed by Doctor Francis Flegg (John Litel), is later found dead. Barnett notices Rodgers has died in the same fashion as Angela Merrova. Through a series of investigations, it is discovered that any patient with Type One blood (the same blood type of Rodgers) has disappeared from the hospital, leaving the victims drained of their blood. With Rhodes being lead to pay Doctor Flegg a visit, he is followed inconspicuously by Barnett. Before meeting up with Flegg, Rhodes is met by Flegg's laboratory assistant (Humphrey Bogart), whose ghost-like facial features and acquiring his icy cold handshake indicates that there is something entirely strange and mysterious about him. As for Barnett (peeking through the windows), who feels that he has seen this man before, decides to go through the file room of the Morning Dispatch looking for some answers, only to discover through some old newspaper clippings something even more mysterious about Flegg's assistant, who might be the legally executed Doctor X.

Featured in the supporting cast are: Rosemary Lane as Joan Vance, the student nurse; Huntz Hall as Pinky, the newspaper copy boy; Charles C. Wilson as Detective Roy Kincaid; and Vera Lewis as Nurse Sweetman. Olin Howland playing the morgue attendant is very amusing in his bit providing some very "dead on" humor.

Zombie-like creatures, including Bogart (billed as Marshall Quesne, but who refers himself to the name that sounds more like Kane, sporting glasses and a streak of white hair down his head) and Lya Lys, in desperate need for specific rare blood types in order to stay alive and roaming the city, not only makes THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X quite interesting in plot, if one can overlook some of its over abundance of "comedy relief" by Wayne Morris, which at times works out well here, but even more watchable with the odd casting of soon to be "superstar" Humphrey Bogart (the very same Bogey of such well known achieve classics as THE MALTESE FALCON and CASABLANCA), then a resident Warner Brothers stock player notable for his gangster roles, either playing the lead or in supporting status. While Boris Karloff, who specialized in playing such characters as this, was regularly appearing in program productions at Warners at this time, makes one wonder why he wasn't selected in the part given to Bogey himself. Had it been that way, then THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X would have been just another routine Karloff programmer. With Karloff assuming the part, this would be expected. But with Bogart, this would not, which makes THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X even more worthy of viewing, and really no harm done during its short span of 62 minutes. Another interesting thing to take notice is that Bogart is billed third during the opening credits, and listed first during the closing cast credits. With its sci-fi influence, THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X is campy, at times amusing, seldom scary, and does offer Rosemary Lane a rare on screen opportunity in finding herself strapped on an operating table by that ghoulish creature (played by Bogart) to belt out a good scream or two, but being no threat to Fay Wray who had her scream-a-thon fest in her most famous thriller, KING KONG (RKO, 1933). But in true Bogart fashion, the story does find time for some gun play. As for Dennis Morgan, who previously appeared in films for various studios billed as Stanley Morner, makes a fine serious-minded secondary character in this production. He would soon rise to lead performances throughout the 1940s, and being best known for his frequent teamings with Jack Carson in a series of musical-comedies.

The.Return.Of.Dr.X.1939.DVDRip.XviD-FRAGMENT.avi

Specs:
Filesize.....: 698 MB (or 714,798 KB or 731,953,152 bytes)
Runtime......: 01:02:32 (89,951 fr)
Video Codec..: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1465 kb/s
Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 87 kb/s, monophonic VBR
Frame Size...: 576x416 (1.38:1) [=18:13]

Subs: The.Return.Of.Dr.X.1939.DVDRip.XviD-FRAGMENT.Subs.rar (English, Spanish, French)

IMDB

[Alex_add]

pinchada tambien , para devil doll no habia ningun link? tengo un tvrip creo que en castellano

[Morrissey21]

Pincho.

Gracias, Jma.

[Noelia]

Pinchada!! , gracias Jma32

Saludos y gracias por compartir.

[style]

Esta también, muchas gracias

[Tucco]

Pinchada, muchas gracias.

Saludos.

[adrian1230]

Pincho, gracias.

[Noelia]

Completa y compartiendo!!

Saludos y gracias por compartir.

[adrian1230]

Completa la película y los subtítulos.

[ChicoSalami]

Pincho yo también.

Thx.

[ChicoSalami]

Completa y compartiendo.

[theycame2001]

Pincho esta peli tan curiosa. Gracias, Wolfman y Jma32.

[juanbrujo]

También la pincho, muchas gracias.

[miguel_HammerFilms]

Hola, tengo un problemilla. He intentado pasar los subtítulos a formato srt según las instrucciones que hay en el hilo correspondiente usando el SubRip, pero no lo he conseguido. Hay símbolos muy extraños, en algunos me da errores, y cuando guardo el .srt me faltan trozos y además no está sincronizado.

¿Alguien tiene ya los subtítulos de esta película en formato srt y los puede compartir? Grcias y Saludos.

[Pasanen]

Aquí los tienes.

http://titles.box.sk/index.php?pid=subt2&p=i&rid=209817

saludos.

[miguel_HammerFilms]

Muchísimas gracias.

[elchanguito]

Muchísimas gracias por esos subtítulos.
Un saludo a todos.

[estebandas]

Me pongo también con esta película. Muchas gracias.

[penhamo]

Completa y compartiendo.

Un saludo

[rigan]

Me pongo con ella
Gracias