Doctor
X (1932, 80m, Warner Bros.) Starring Lionel
Atwill, Preston
Foster, and Fay
Wray (and you thought her only movie was King Kong,
right? Actually, she made 76 -- and all but 10 between the
years 1923-1942). Atwill
is Doctor Xavier, and the creature turns out to become
"The Full Moon Strangler." Fay's there just to
scream a lot. Directed by Michael
Curtiz, who would later go on to direct Captain Blood,
The Charge of the Little Brigade, We're No Angels, Angels
with Dirty Faces, Life With Father and a whole bunch of
other significant films, including Casablanca,
which won him the Oscar for Best Director---but not
before Curtiz, Atwill and Wray teamed up again for The
Mystery of the Wax Museum, (1933, 77m) which
would later be remade with Vincent Price (and Charles
Bronson ) as the 3-D classic House
of Wax.