Director: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frank Lawton, Frances Drake, Violet Kemble Cooper,
Plot: Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies
Three two-disk sets from Eureka provide an overview of Universal Studios’ horror movies from the mid-’30s to the early ’50s, in the period when the first wave of early sound horrors petered out and briefly flourished again as […]