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The Mad Doctor of Market Street

  • 1942
  • Approved
  • 1 h 1 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
5,2/10
638
SUA AVALIAÇÃO
Lionel Atwill, Claire Dodd, Una Merkel, and Nat Pendleton in The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
ComédiaCrimeDramaFicção científicaHorror

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco after his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a shipwre... Ler tudoA mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco after his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore on the island, sees what is happening and determines to free the natives ... Ler tudoA mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco after his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore on the island, sees what is happening and determines to free the natives from his rule.

  • Direção
    • Joseph H. Lewis
  • Roteirista
    • Al Martin
  • Artistas
    • Una Merkel
    • Lionel Atwill
    • Nat Pendleton
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    5,2/10
    638
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Joseph H. Lewis
    • Roteirista
      • Al Martin
    • Artistas
      • Una Merkel
      • Lionel Atwill
      • Nat Pendleton
    • 19Avaliações de usuários
    • 30Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Una Merkel
    Una Merkel
    • Aunt Margaret Wentworth
    Lionel Atwill
    Lionel Atwill
    • Graham (Dr. Ralph Benson)
    Nat Pendleton
    Nat Pendleton
    • Red Hogan
    Claire Dodd
    Claire Dodd
    • Patricia Wentworth
    Anne Nagel
    Anne Nagel
    • Mrs. William Saunders
    Hardie Albright
    Hardie Albright
    • William Saunders
    Richard Davies
    Richard Davies
    • Jim
    John Eldredge
    John Eldredge
    • Dwight, Ship's Officer
    Mala
    Mala
    • Barab
    • (as Ray Mala)
    Noble Johnson
    Noble Johnson
    • Native Chief Elan
    Rosina Galli
    • Tanao- Chief's Wife
    Al Kikume
    Al Kikume
    • Kalo
    Milton Kibbee
    Milton Kibbee
    • Hadley
    Byron Shores
    • Crandall
    Tani Marsh
    • Tahitian Dancer
    Billy Bunkley
    • Tahitian Dancer
    Wade Boteler
    Wade Boteler
    • Crewman
    • (não creditado)
    Al Bridge
    Al Bridge
    • Ship's Officer on Bridge
    • (não creditado)
    • Direção
      • Joseph H. Lewis
    • Roteirista
      • Al Martin
    • Elenco e equipe completos
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    Avaliações de usuários19

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    5the_mysteriousx

    Lionel Atwill, Mad Doctor at large

    This very minor Universal horror film from 1942 is significant for it was the last time Lionel Atwill received a starring role in a film. He was on the outs after this due to the sex scandal that ruined his career and health. He played only minor roles after this and died 4 years later of cancer.

    The film is very easy to be hard on and Universal has obviously regarded it so low, that it has never made it to video, despite the millions they still make off their classic horror films. What kills the film is a lack of mood or suspense. It is super-pedestrianly directed by Joseph H. Lewis.

    What makes the film are the change-of-pace settings including a doomed cruise ship and an exotic island. The actors are all excellent too, even if Nat Pendelton and Una Merkel get a little tired with their comic relief act.

    Ultimately, Atwill rules and is as menacing and sinister as ever. He revives a dead native and is revered as a god by the island tribe. He very selfishly dictates how the other ship survivors will live as only Atwill so slimily could (Sounds like a reality show plot). The other standout is Noble Johnson as the village leader. He is given more dialogue than he ever had in his many previous horror films and he ultimately gives Atwill a run for his money. It was nice to see him in a larger role.

    Don't expect too much - this is a B film. Atwill fans will delight in seeing his last great lead performance. Atwill may have never had a definitive mad doctor film, but I've always regarded him as the maddest doctor of them all.
    2dbborroughs

    Mad mess of a movie that shoots itself in the foot by badly blending comedy and horror. Only notable as Lionel Atwill's last leading role

    Lionel Atwill plays Br Benson a scientist experimenting with suspended animation. Atwill has found a way of putting animals in to suspended animation, then curing their disease and then bringing them back to life. Unfortunately when he tries to move to people the good doctor finds that he can not revive his subjects thus provoking the police to look for the murderer. Fleeing he boards a ship and heads for the south seas. When the ship catches fire, Atwill and several other survivors end up on an island where Atwill uses his medical tricks to enslave the natives.

    B movie or not this is a mess of a movie. The film starts okay, with Atwill trying his experiment on a man trying to get money for his family. The police burst in and he's forced to flee. After that comedy sets in and the film doesn't know what it wants to be. Once the ship sinks and the survivors end up on the island things become a mixed bag.

    Its it suppose to be serious or a comedy? First billed Una Merkel makes me think it was a comedy. Merkel as a crazy woman going to New Zealand for the fifth time to find love would usually be in the background to Atwill's craziness, but here she's often front and center. The problem is that the comedy is very heavy handed and not very funny. As a drama it isn't much better. Its natives in sarongs bowing before the mad Atwill, who looks bored and distracted. It reminded me of some of the dreadful jungle monster pictures from the 1950's where the mad scientist goes to the jungle and sets some creature loose like in From Hell it Came, except those movies were fun.

    I don't think that it helps that this film has something resembling a budget. Certainly the use of stock footage helped, but the fact that Universal spent probably twice what something like Republic, Monogram or a Poverty Row studio made me think that this would be something more than a really cheesy film. I know the reasonable look of the film made it hard to forgive the dopey script.

    To be honest this is a hard film to really discuss. Its a light weight B movie that is not bad enough to make one want to spend time commenting on it. Its a bad movie that makes you want to forget it after you've seen it, with a "well that was a waste of an hour" before moving on to something else. Its a misfire and not worth saying anything bad about simply because the movie inflicts enough damage on itself.

    Not worth bothering with except as a footnote in Lionel Atwill's career, his last starring role, and possibly his worst performance.
    5kevinolzak

    SHOCK! entry first seen on Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater in 1965

    1941's "The Mad Doctor of Market Street" was the second time Lionel Atwill starred as a crazed scientist after receiving top billing over Lon Chaney in "Man Made Monster," but settled for second below Una Merkel here, who was coming off one of her best known roles, playing the ditsy daughter of W.C. Fields in "The Bank Dick." Una's likability survives intact, despite her unfunny material (can't say the same for Nat Pendleton). Nearing the end of her screen career was lovely Claire Dodd, busy at Universal that year ("The Black Cat" and Abbott and Costello's "In the Navy"), while cowardly scoundrel John Eldredge is in familiar form ("The Black Cat" and "Horror Island"). Even Noble Johnson ("King Kong") appears as a dignified native chief, not easy under such studio bound conditions. Atwill's Ralph Benson escapes a murder charge in San Francisco, only to wind up a prisoner on a South Sea island, until a demonstration of his technique on suspended animation on a supposedly dead native woman makes him 'God of Life' among the savages, who grant him his every wish. I certainly can't blame him for coveting Miss Dodd, just as he eyed beautiful Anne Nagel in "Man Made Monster" (here reduced to a cameo as his first victim's widow). Writer Al Martin earlier scripted Lugosi's "Invisible Ghost" (also directed by Joseph H. Lewis), and in 1957 turned out "Invasion of the Saucer Men," a rare science fiction comedy. Included in Universal's popular SHOCK! package of classic horror films issued to television in the late 50's, and aired 3 times on Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater, Dec 18 1965 (following 1959's "The Hideous Sun Demon"), Dec 28 1974 (followed by 1970's "Night of the Witches"), and Sept 3 1977 (the first feature), paired with the only screening of 1934's "Secret of the Château" (a Claire Dodd double feature!).
    Michael_Elliott

    Decent

    Mad Doctor of Market Street, The (1942)

    ** 1/2 (out of 4)

    Decent Universal horror film has a mad doctor (Lionel Atwill) experimenting with bringing the dead by to life through frozen animation. Your entertainment level will depend on whether or not you like comedy mixed in with your horror. I think the two genres can go together in certain cases and I found the comedy here to be pretty good. Nothing great but nothing bad either. The film's story certainly isn't original but it is fun enough to keep the short film going strong until the end. Atwill, in his final lead role, turns in a fun performance, which is something we've all come to expect out of him.
    5alexanderdavies-99382

    Watch this for Lionel Atwill only.

    Lionel Atwill lifted a few average horror films to the status of being tolerable. Luckily, he was able to achieve this by being a theatre- trained actor who was a genuine talent. "The Mad Doctor of Market Street" is a typical example. He plays another mad scientist who is forced to leave the United States after causing the death of a patient whilst conducting some bizarre experiments. Lionel Atwill finishes up by being shipwrecked on a desert island along with other people and then attempts to conquer the island's inhabitants. Strictly speaking, this is routine stuff but worth seeing...just.

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    • Curiosidades
      Second-billed Lionel Atwill stars as Dr.Ralph Benson, but is listed in the end credits only under his alias, "Graham."
    • Erros de gravação
      When the officers break through the door to arrest Dr. Benson, the wall moves - revealing that it is not a solid wall in a real room.
    • Conexões
      Featured in Universal Horror Strikes Back! (2020)

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 27 de fevereiro de 1942 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • Ön bortom lagen
    • Locações de filme
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, Califórnia, EUA(Studio)
    • Empresa de produção
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Tempo de duração
      • 1 h 1 min(61 min)
    • Cor
      • Black and White
    • Proporção
      • 1.37 : 1

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