The Mad Monster

USA 1942
produced by
Sigmund Neufeld for PRC
directed by Sam Newfield
starring George Zucco, Glenn Strange, Anne Nagel, Johnny Downs, Gordon De Main, Mae Busch, Reginald Barlow, Robert Strange, John Elliott, Ed Cassidy, Slim Whitaker, Sarah Padden, Henry Hall
written by Fred Myton, music by David Chudnow, make up by Harry Ross

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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George Zucco is able to transform hits dim-witted but tender assistant Glenn Strange into a bloodthirsty wolf. He then uses this dangerous beast as a weapon to have his revenge on the fellow scientist who threw him out of the university. It all ends (as films like this often do) in a fire burning both creator & creation. Anne Nagel plays Zucco's daughter.

With a story like this, Zucco playing a villain & Strange in cheap wolf-make-up (it actually more resembles the chimps from the original Planet of the Apes) you just know this has to be a winner ... & so it is. Great if somewhat mindless fun from PRC with an especially hilarious scene when Zucco talks to his absent colleagues who do appear semi-transparent at his table & start talking back.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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