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Maniac (1934)

1934 · Feature film · 51 min · dir. Dwain Esper

He menaced women with weird desires!

  • Horror

Synopsis

Don Maxwell is an ex-vaudeville ham, wanted by police, who has now found himself as the unlikely assistant to Dr. Meirschultz, a mad scientist in the business of reanimating corpses. Maxwell's gift of impersonation gets him and Meirschultz past the guards and into a morgue where they use a special serum to revive the corpse of a pretty young woman. But that's nothing. Dr. Meirschultz has a heart beating in a jar of solution and is eager to put it into a corpse that really needs it. Meirschultz…

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Details

Director
Dwain Esper
Writer
Hildegarde Stadie
Cinematography
William C. Thompson
Studio
Road Show Attractions
Released
1934-09-11
Running time
51 minutes

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