The Return of Doctor X (1939)
Seven years after the first film, the dastardly Doctor X returns, this time played by Humphrey Bogart.
Bogart was never really a horror actor and this role doesn't give him much to do aside from sneer and attempt a silly Karloff style hair-do with a laughable white streak. According to the history books the legendary actor wasn't a fan of this film and there was so much more to come from him with his career about to truly take off in a mere two years time.
Lacking much in the way of horror or indeed the first films technicolor hues, this has more in common with newspaper comedies of the time and is for the most part instantly forgettable.
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