Maniac

He menaced women with weird desires!

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Horror

An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.

Released: Sep 11, 1934

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Bill Woods

Don Maxwell

Horace B. Carpenter

Dr. Meirschultz

Ted Edwards

Buckley

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