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Date Posted: 05:01:34 10/26/09 Mon
Author: Rick
Subject: Favorite moments in The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)


With Lionel Atwill, the master...






Rick

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[> Re: Favorite moments in The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) -- Tim, 22:36:19 10/28/09 Wed [1]

A man stands on a Market Street corner on a rainy night before entering the office of Ralph Benson (Lionel Atwill in a sinister looking beard), a chemist and self-appointed Professor of Research.

Benson is experimenting in suspended animation and the man who entered the office is his latest paid guinea pig.

The experiment fails and the man dies, but Benson escapes the police by going out a window.

Benson, now minus his beard and posing as an antique dealer named Graham, is a fugitive and has boarded a passenger ship bound for New Zealand and Australia.

A detective (Byron Shores) is on the ship pursuing Benson but doesn't recognize Graham as the man he is after. Benson aka Graham kills the detective, pushing him overboard.

The passengers originally think the man overboard is a suicide, but Margaret Wentworth (Una Merkel) spreads the word around the ship that it was murder.

The movie takes a surprising turn when the ship is lost and a a group of six of the survivors wind up marooned together on a South Sea island.

The group, which includes Benson, the ditzy Aunt Margaret and her niece Patricia Wentworth (Claire Dodd), boxer Red Hogan (Nat Pendleton), Dwight (John Eldredge) and Jim (Richard Davies) a ship stewart who has eyes for Patricia, is taken prisoner by the natives of the island.

The survivors realize that Graham is actually the fugitive Ralph Benson.

Benson convinces the natives that he is the god of life.

Benson appears to bring Jim back to life, again impressing the natives.

The natives give Benson until sunrise to revive the drowned Barab (Ray Mala).

The rescue plane picks up the four remaining castaways.

Tim


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[> [> Re: Favorite moments in The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) -- DAN, 10:03:57 10/30/09 Fri [1]

I saw "Mad Dr of Market Street" a few months ago and it's Lionel Atwill who makes this film enjoyable to watch.
Well it looks like Tim has covered all the good moments, and there's no other scenes I can think of right now.

One thing though is, I wished Anne Nagel would have had a bigger part than she did in this film, and went to the island with the others.


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