# Island of Lost Souls (1932 film)

Island of Lost Souls is a 1932 film concerning an obsessed scientist who conducts profane experiments in evolution and establishes himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
    Directed by Erle C. Kenton. Written by Philip Wylie and Waldemar Young, based on The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells.

## Dr. Moreau

* Did you see that, Montgomery? She was tender like a woman. Oh, how that little scene spurs the scientific imagination onward.
* Mr. Parker, do you know what it means to feel like God?

## Other

* Captain Davies: Now men, stay sober! Any drinkin' to be done, I'll do it myself.
* Mr. Montgomery: Don't look back!

## Dialogue

    Captain Donahue: What kind of a place did you say this was, Doc?
    Dr. Moreau: I didn't say.
    Edward Parker: Those poor things out there in the jungle. Those animals. They - They talk.
    Dr. Moreau: That was my first great achievement. Articulate speech controlled by the brain. And it was a great achievement! Oh, it takes a long time and infinite patience to make them talk. Someday I will create a woman and it'll be easier.
    Dr. Moreau: She's never seen anything like him.
    Mr. Montgomery: No?
    Dr. Moreau: You and I don't count. The only reactions we get from her are fear and terror.
    Mr. Montgomery: That's understandable.
    Dr. Moreau: But how will she respond to Parker where there's no cause for fear? Will she be attracted? Is she capable of being attracted? Has she a woman's emotional impulses? I could scarcely hope for a chance like this short of London.
    Captain Donahue: That jungle don't look any too inviting.
    Ruth Thomas: We must go on. We've got to find him.
    Captain Donahue: All right. I'd just as soon leave it for somebody else to do. If there was anybody else here to do it.

## Taglines

* TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island...Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!
* HE DEFIED NATURE ... creating men and women from animals ... only to find that he could not control them!
* The PANTHER WOMAN ... there was danger in her smile ... death in her embrace!
* THE PANTHER WOMAN lured men on - only to destroy them body and soul!
* Beasts Into Men! A Panther Into A Woman!
* Your wildest fancies, your weirdest dreams, never conceived so strange a romance.
* A sensational picture from the book that shocked a thrill-saturated world.
* Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau, the half-crazed scientist.
* It begins where DR. JEKYLL & MR HYDE left off! A weird, fantastic adventure with a mad doctor who discovers how to turn animals into humans-but not how to control them! On a lonely tropical island he practices his black art! Changes wild beasts into creatures whose strangely human appearance and action hide raging animal passions! Something brand new in picture plots, with a specially selected cast, that will bring thrills to audiences and joy to exhibitors. Showmanship Plus!
* SHRIEKING HORROR that will scare you to PANIC POINT!

## Cast

* Charles Laughton — Dr. Moreau
* Richard Arlen — Edward Parker
* Leila Hyams — Ruth Thomas
* Bela Lugosi — Sayer of the Law
* Arthur Hohl — Mr Montgomery
* Kathleen Burke – The Panther Woman
* Stanley Fields — Captain Davies
* Paul Hurst — Captain Donahue
* Hans Steinke — Ouran
* Tetsu Komai — M'ling
* George Irving — The Consul

## External links

* Island of Lost Souls quotes at the Internet Movie Database