Man-Made Monster (1941)
Man-Made Monster (1941)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Lionel Atwill
Dr. Paul Rigas
Lon Chaney Jr.
Dan McCormick
Anne Nagel
June Lawrence
Samuel S. Hinds
Dr. John Lawrence
Frank Albertson
Mark Adams
William B. Davidson
District Attorney Ralph B. Stanley
George Waggner
Director
Harry Essex
Writer
Ben Taggart
Detective Sergeant Regan
Sid Schwartz
Writer
Constance Bergen
Nurse
Len Golos
Writer
Ivan Miller
Doctor
Elwood Bredell
Cinematographer
Chester Gan
Chinese Boy, Wong
Arthur Hilton
Editor
George Meader
Dr. Bruno
Frank O'Connor
Detective
John Dilson
Medical Examiner
Byron Foulger
Alienist #2
Jessie Arnold
Mrs. Frank Davis (uncredited)
James Blaine
Charlie, Prison Guard (uncredited)
Gary Breckner
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Lowell Drew
Jury Foreman (uncredited)
John Ellis
Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Douglas Evans
Police Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
Reporter (uncredited)
William Hall
Mike - Dynamo Operator (uncredited)
Russell Hicks
Warden Harris (uncredited)
Wright Kramer
Judge (uncredited)
Tom Quinn
Detective (uncredited)
Bob Reeves
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Mel Ruick
Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Francis Sayles
Frank Davis (uncredited)
Paul Scott
Prison Chaplain (uncredited)
David Sharpe
Hay Wagon Passenger (uncredited) / Stunts
Victor Zimmerman
Dynamo Operator #2 (uncredited)
Corky
Corky the Dog (uncredited)
Charles Henderson
Music
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Charles Previn
Orchestrator
Jack Otterson
Art Direction
Vera West
Costume Design
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor
Jack Pierce
Makeup Artist
Frank Skinner
Music
Hans J. Salter
Original Music Composer / Music Director
Jack Bernhard
Associate Producer
John P. Fulton
Special Effects
Harold H. MacArthur
Art Direction
Charles Carroll
Sound
Eric Wybrow
Technical Supervisor
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 28, 1941
StatusReleased
Running Time1h
Content RatingNR
Budget$86,000
Genres
Wiki.
Man-Made Monster is a 1941 American science-fiction horror film directed by George Waggner and produced by Jack Bernhard for Universal Pictures. Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Lon Chaney Jr. (in his horror film debut) and Lionel Atwill. Man-Made Monster was re-released under various titles including Electric Man and The Mysterious Dr. R. Realart Pictures re-released the film in 1953 under the title The Atomic Monster as a double feature with The Flying Saucer (1950). On the film's original main title, there is no hyphen; it's simply Man Made Monster.
The plot resembles The Invisible Ray (1936), The Walking Dead (1936), and two decades later Indestructible Man (1956); that much later feature starred Chaney but was not directly inspired by Man-Made Monster.