So, er, yes. For nigh on four years now there has been a small imp on my shoulder cackling into my ears with glee, glee, such hideous glee, and all because I cannot find the existence of a film I once watched so late at night...
I'm half convinced that it was a film called Dr X, but I have looked on the IMDB and they only list 'The Return Of Dr X' so I cannot find out. It was an old film, I'm fairly sure of that, it certainly looked old, kind of horror type thing, with a crazed scientist (the afore-mentioned Dr X, I presume).
It had this ace bit where he was in the lab mixing his shit and stuff, and this bizarre early electronics was going off in the background with this haphazard 'Synthetic Flesh' monotone.
If anyone knows anything at all, please help me. I must find this before I implode...
― emil.y, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Yr not thinking of 'Doctor Cyclops' (1939) are you? It was one of
the first horror movies made in technicolor, and features Albert
Dekker as a mad scientist who has discovered a way to shrink
animals and humans.
― Andrew L, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
1931:
Dr X (w. Spencer Tracy and
Lionel Atwill)
1936:
The Return of Dr X (w.
Humphrey Bogart)
Dr's X's arm and scarred face are made of
synthetic flesh: electronica I find more
puzzling, unless it was added later.
― mark s, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Hmm...there sorta was a scence like that, Mike, true. But the
character was a Skeksis and not a Dr. X. ;-)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The mark s has it! Thank you kindly, now all I need to do is find a
copy...
As for the 'electronica', well, it could just be me projecting that
onto the memory, it was definitely very very crazy and wonderful
music, but to be honest I wouldn't be that surprised if it was made
with some kind of early electronics and the like...
― emil.y, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)