The Return of Doctor X

Nov 23, 1939

1h 2m

★ 5.9

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

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.

Genres

Science Fiction

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures

The Return of Doctor X Trailers

Cast

Dr. Maurice Xavier

Humphrey Bogart

Joan Vance

Rosemary Lane

Walter Wichita Garrett

Wayne Morris

Dr. Rhodes

Dennis Morgan

Dr. Flegg

John Litel

Angela

Lya Lys

Pinky

Huntz Hall

Det. Kincaid

Charles C. Wilson

Miss Sweetman

Vera Lewis

Chairman

Howard Hickman

Undertaker

Olin Howland

Detective Sergeant Moran

Cliff Saum

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