The Mad Monster (1942)
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Bland former child actor Johnny Downs earns top billing in this low-budget horror film, but the real star is that most psychotic of all the mad doctors George Zucco. The British-born character actor plays Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, a discredited -- and quite mad -- medico who has discovered a way to turn… More Bland former child actor Johnny Downs earns top billing in this low-budget horror film, but the real star is that most psychotic of all the mad doctors George Zucco. The British-born character actor plays Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, a discredited -- and quite mad -- medico who has discovered a way to turn his helper, Pietro (Glenn Strange), into a wolf man. The lycanthropic experiments succeed only too well and although Dr. Cameron spouts plans of turning his discovery into a weapon in defense of the civilized world ("men who are governed by one collective thought, the animal lust to kill without regard for personal safety! Such an army will sweep everything before it," Dr. Cameron promises), he instead unleashes his creation on those fellow scientists who had engineered his ouster from academia in the first place. Before long, however, the good doctor is unable to control the wolf man, who threatens to kill everything in his past, and only newspaper reporter Tom Gregory (Johnny Downs) and Lenora (Anne Nagel), Cameron's innocent daughter, may be able to stop the monster. A perennial cult favorite, The Mad Monster was released on the heels of The Wolf Man (1941), but cost a fraction of Universal's elaborate lycanthropic exercise. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sam Newfield
- Written By
- Fred Myton
- Genres
- Horror, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 15, 1942 Wide
- On DVD
- May 31, 2005
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Cast
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Johnny Downs
as Tom Gregory
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George Zucco
as Dr. Lorenzo Cameron
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Anne Nagel
as Lenora
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Sarah Padden
as Grandmother
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Glenn Strange
as Petro
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Gordon De Main
as Prof. Fitzgerald
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Mae Busch
as Susan
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Reginald Barlow
as Prof. Warwick
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Robert Strange
as Prof. Blaine
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Henry Hall
as Country Doctor
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Edward Cassidy
as Father
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Eddie Holden
as Harper
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John Elliott
as Prof. Hatfield
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Charles "Slim" Whitaker
as Policeman
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Gil Patric
as Lieutenant Detective
- Johhny Downs
