This is an interesting film which manages to remain engaging despite some enormous plot holes.
George Zucco plays mad Dr Morris who involves one of his students Ted Allison ( David Bruce ) in his experiments on apes with an ancient nerve gas that was used to turn people into zombies. However Morris has another passion, Ted's fiancee Isabel a popular singer, and decides to use the gas to get Ted out of the way. Isabel on the other hand wants to be free of Ted to be with her pianist Eric ( Turhan Bey ). How this romantic quadrangle plays out is actually more interesting than the contrived horror element and there's good support from Milburn Stone as a police detective and King Kong's Robert Armstrong as a crime reporter.
Evelyn Ankers ( as Isabel Lewis )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Evelyn gets to do a bit more acting in this one although not singing as her "voice" was supplied by Lillian Cornell.
Rose Hobart ( as Della )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
This marked Rose's return to horror for the first time since the 1931 version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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