The Mad Monster.

Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Director, Sam Newfield.; Starring George Zucco and Anne Nagel.; A fiendish scientist is ousted from a university for his secret experiments with blood transfusions. Going into hiding, the scientist concocts a serum that enables him to transform a country boy into a werewolf.; PFA 1616-01-7288. COPY-SPECIFC DESCRIPTION: 2 reels of 2 (78 min.) : opt sd., b&w ; 16 mm. print.

Dr. Lorenzo Cameron's gardener is to be the doctor's subject in an experiment. Cameron injects a serum made from a wolf's blood into the cooperative Petro, who loses consciousness, grows fur and fangs and awakens after he has turned into a wolfman. Cameron then turns to an empty table and visualizes his former colleagues, four professors who ridiculed his theory that transfusions of wolf blood could be used to give a human being wolf-like traits. Cameron proposes giving wolfman traits to the army to help with the war.

Credits

Newfield, Sam, 1899-1964.
Films Incorporated.
Cast
George Zucco, Anne Nagel
Complete catalog record
THE MAD MONSTER. Producers Releasing Corp., c1942. 8 reels, sd. Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sam Newfield; original screenplay, Fred Myton; music, David Chudnow; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd. © Producers Releasing Corp.; 7May42; LP11286.

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, length, genre, catalog record
  2. BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE · record ↗ — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, credits
  3. Wikidata · Q2032655 ↗ — country