Bela Lugosi came over to the UK to play a dual role in this Edgar Wallace adaptation. He plays Dr Orloff who is running a murderous insurance scam with a Home for the Blind as cover. Part of the hoax involves him posing as the gentle blind administrator Dearborn although another actor had to voice Dearborn's lines because Lugosi's voice was too distinctive. In the US it was re-titled The Human Monster .
Greta Gynt ( as Diana Stuart )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Greta plays the daughter of one of Orloff's victims who goes undercover to investigate his death. Greta was born as Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo but came to Britain as a child in 1921 . She was picked up by Rank who tried to market her as the British Jean Harlow. That didn't quite work out but she did have a long career in film. her last being in 1963. She died in 2000 aged 83.
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