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The Return of Doctor X

HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD...TO HAUNT THE LIVING!!!

1939★ 6.0 · 631h 2mScience FictionHorrorMystery

Overview

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.

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Cast

Humphrey Bogart
as Dr. Maurice Xavier

William Hopper
as Interne

Ian Wolfe
as Cemetery Caretaker (uncredited)

Dennis Morgan
as Dr. Rhodes

Charles Cahill Wilson
as Det. Kincaid

Olin Howland
as Undertaker

John Litel
as Dr. Flegg

Mike Lally
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Huntz Hall
as Pinky

Rosemary Lane
as Joan Vance

Paul Panzer
as Hospital Attendant (uncredited)

Wayne Morris
as Walter Wichita Garrett

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Doctor X Collection

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Release date: 1939-11-23

Runtime: 1h 2m

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Science FictionHorrorMystery

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