An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Acting
Bill Woods delivers the most unhinged performance of 1934.
Direction
Dwain Esper's 'educational' inserts are accidentally avant-garde.
Director
Dwain Esper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Dwain Esper toured this 'educational' film with live lectures on mental illness, exploiting loopholes to skirt censorship.
This public domain disaster became a midnight movie staple after falling into obscurity, rediscovered by bad-film enthusiasts in the 1980s VHS era.
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