Scary - The Phantom Creeps 1939 - Chapter 5 of 12 - HD ENHANCED - Béla Lugosi
Channel: Marvelous Movie Classics
Date: 29/01/2021

Mad Dr. Zorka uses his arsenal of bizarre inventions to conquer the world in this feature-length version of the serial. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves. TWELVE CHAPTERS IN ALL. 
     Dr. Zorka, a rogue scientist, is the creator of various weapons of warfare, including a devisualizer belt which renders him invisible; an eight-foot tall slave robot (Ed Wolff), robot spiders that can destroy life or paralyse it and he also has a deadly meteorite fragment from which he extracts an element which can induce suspended animation in an entire army. Foreign spies, operating under the guise of a foreign language school, are trying to buy or mostly steal the meteorite element, while his former partner, Dr. Fred Mallory, miffed that Zorka will not turn his inventions over to the U.S. Government, blows the whistle on him to Captain Bob West of the Military Intelligence Department. Tired of answering the door and saying no to the spies and the government, Zorka moves his lab. When his beloved wife is killed, Zorka, puttering around for his own amusement up to this point, is crushed and swears eternal vengeance against anyone trying to use his creations and to make himself world dictator. And would have if not for his assistant Monk, an escaped convict virtually enslaved by Zorka, who is cowardly, treacherous and totally incompetent, and whose accidental or deliberate interference with Zorka's efforts repeatedly frustrates his master's own plans.

Starring    Béla Lugosi
     Dorothy Arnold
     Robert Kent
Entire Cast:
   Béla Lugosi as Dr. Alex Zorka. 
   Robert Kent as Capt. Bob West
   Dorothy Arnold as Jean Drew
   Edwin Stanley as Dr. Fred Mallory
   Regis Toomey as Jim Daley
   Jack C. Smith as Monk
   Edward Van Sloan as Jarvis [Chs.2-12]
   Dora Clement as Ann Zorka [Chs.1-2] (as Dora Clemant)
   Anthony Averill as Rankin - Henchman [Chs.2-12]
   Hugh Huntley as Perkins, Dr. Mallory's lab assistant [Chs.2-12]
   Monte Vandergrift as Al - Guard [Ch.5]
   Frank Mayo as Train Engineer [Ch.6]
   Jim Farley as Skipper [Ch.9] (as James Farley)
   Eddie Acuff as Mac - AMI Agent [Chs.2-12]
   Reed Howes as Signalman [Ch.10]
   Ed Wolff as The Robot (as Edw. Wolff)

Directed by   Ford Beebe,  Saul A. Goodkind
Produced by   Henry MacRae
Screenplay by  George Plympton, Basil Dickey, Mildred Barish
Story by    Wyllis Cooper
Cinematography  Jerry Ash, William Sickner
Edited by   Irving Birnbaum, Joseph Gluck, Alvin Todd
Production Co.  Universal Pictures
Distributed by  Universal Pictures
Release date   January 7, 1939
Running time  265 minutes (for all 12 chapters)
Country    United States
Language   English