The Return of Doctor X

Year: 1939

Runtime: 62 mins

Language: English

Director: Vincent Sherman

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He rose from the dead … to haunt the living! News reporter Walter Garrett goes to a hotel to interview glamorous actress Angela Merrova, only to find her stabbed to death. When he returns with police, the room is empty and the body has vanished. Garrett files a story but is dismissed after Merrova—alive—confronts the paper. Determined to regain his job, he must uncover the grisly scheme of a madman.

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