This film was meant to kick start a franchise starring the deformed Rondo Hatton as "The Creeper". In the event only two films were made before Hatton died and the second one was so badly received that it's doubtful the series would have continued anyway.
A sculptor , De Lange ( Martin Kozleck ) is about to throw himself into the Seine after a critical savaging when a comatose man ( Hatton ) floats into view. Believing the man's features will make his fortune De Lange revives him, unaware that the man is a serial killer known as The Creeper. When he works that out, he sets the grateful Creeper on his enemies.
It's not a bad storyline but it suffers from a lack of sympathetic characters. Certainly the wrong girl gets killed in more ways than one..
Virginia Grey ( as Joan Medford )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Virginia - who plays a really irritating character here - was the daughter of film director Ray Grey and a child actress in the silent era. She had a break from acting in the thirties but then recommenced a very long career in film and TV which lasted to the mid-seventies.She died in 2004 aged 87.
Joan Shawlee ( as Stella )
Sex : Appears in a close-fitting two piece tennis outfit in most of her scenes
Death : Her spine is snapped by The Creeper
The statuesque Joan was originally a model and singer in New York and was at the beginning of her career here. She went on to small but memorable roles in Some Like It Hot and The Apartment . She switched successfully to television including a short series in the UK called Aggie with Patrick McGoohan. She died of cancer in 1987 aged 61.
Virginia Christine ( as Lady of the Streets )
Sex : Doesn't get round to any
Death : Her spine is snapped by the Creeper.
Virginia was no more than a bit part actress in films. She was a reliable guest star on TV but found her greatest fame in a 21 year stint advertising Folger's Coffee. She died in 1996 aged 76.
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