{"id":30553,"date":"2022-09-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30553"},"modified":"2022-09-15T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T21:08:55","slug":"the-return-of-dr-x-1939-humphrey-bogarts-only-horror-film-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30553","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Return of Dr. X&#8221; (1939) &#8211; Humphrey Bogart&#8217;s Only Horror Film \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z092322zview_returndrx.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Return of Dr. X <\/strong><\/em>(1939)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Directors:\u00a0 <strong>Vincent Sherman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Lee Katz <\/strong>based on <em>The Doctor&#8217;s Secret<\/em> (1938) story in<em> Detective Fiction Weekly<\/em> <strong>by William J. Makin<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan, John Litel <\/strong>and <strong>Huntz Hall<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0 Back from the Grave He Came!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Walter Garrett is a newspaper reporter following leads on a story involving murders where bodies are drained of their blood.\u00a0 Garrett consults with his friend, Dr. Michael Rhodes (Morgan) who then joins the investigation.\u00a0 Garrett and Rhodes discover that Dr. Marshall Quesne (Bogart) bears a strong resemblance to Dr. Maurice Xavier.\u00a0 Xavier was executed in the electric chair for horrible experiments that killed a child.\u00a0 As Garrett and Rhodes get closer to the truth, they may be getting closer to their deaths&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When <em>The Return of Dr. X<\/em> was released, Humphrey Bogart wasn&#8217;t yet Bogart the star.\u00a0 He ended up with third billing, reportedly hated the film and never again worked on a horror movie again.\u00a0 <em>The Return of Dr. X<\/em> is a fun Warner Brothers B picture.\u00a0 Getting Bogart is a bonus!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Return of Dr. X <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z092322zview_returndrx2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Return of Dr. X (1939) Directors:\u00a0 Vincent Sherman Screenplay: \u00a0Lee Katz based on The Doctor&#8217;s Secret (1938) story in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30554,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30553\/revisions\/30554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}