Maniac

Sep 11, 1934

0h 51m

★ 3.9

He menaced women with weird desires!

Overview

An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Road Show Attractions

Maniac Trailers

Cast

Don Maxwell

Bill Woods

Dr. Meirschultz

Horace B. Carpenter

Buckley

Ted Edwards

Mrs. Buckley

Phyllis Diller

Alice Maxwell

Theo Ramsey

Maizie

Jenny Dark

Marvel

Marvelle Andre

Celia McCann

Embalmer

John P. Wade

Neighbor

Marian Constance Blackton

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5.1

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5.4

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4.5

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6.3

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5.7

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6.2

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4.8

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5.7

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4.2

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5.4

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4.1

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0.0

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6.3

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