{"id":35100,"date":"2024-02-01T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35100"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:02:47","slug":"the-mad-doctor-of-market-street-1942-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35100","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mad Doctor of Market Street&#8221; (1942) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z020124zview_maddrmarketst.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Mad Doctor of Market Street <\/strong><\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Joseph H. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Al Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Una Merkel, Lionel Atwill, Nat Pendleton, Noble Johnson <\/strong>and <strong>John Eldredge<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> GENIUS &#8211; OR FIEND?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Ralph Benson (Atwill) changes his name and boards a passenger ship after a man dies during one of Benson&#8217;s crazy experiments.\u00a0 While on the ship Benson is recognized so he lures the man to a secluded area and throws him overboard.\u00a0 A fire breaks out on the ship.\u00a0 Benson and five others are the sole survivors.\u00a0 Their lifeboat lands on an island populated by natives ready to kill them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benson learns that the Chief&#8217;s wife is on her deathbed.\u00a0 Benson claims he can cure her.\u00a0 When a shot of adrenaline revives the woman, the Chief thinks Benson has magical powers.\u00a0 Benson sets himself up as a god.\u00a0 He plans to continue his experiments starting with the other survivors.\u00a0 Trapped on an island with a mad doctor and natives ready to kill them, the survivors have little chance for life.<\/p>\n<p>Unless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Mad Doctor of Market Street<\/em> is about what you&#8217;d expect for a low budget B film of the early 40s.\u00a0 The murders are tame or appear off screen.\u00a0 There&#8217;s an attempt at humor.\u00a0 The one surprising thing and it is pretty grim even though it appears off screen is &#8212; BIG SPOILER ALERT &#8212; the fire that alerts the search party that there are survivors on the island comes from the natives burning the doctor alive!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Mad Doctor of Market Street <\/strong><\/em>(1942) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.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\/2024\/z020124zview_maddrmarketst2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) Director:\u00a0 Joseph H. 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