Edited sentence: Cellier actually has to act not only the role of the philanthropist, but also play the second half of the film as if this character's personality has  been superseded by that of the crippled assistant.The script is often quite amusing, as are the performances by character actors Donald Calthrop, as a caustic, wheelchair-bound laboratory assistant, and Frank Cellier, playing a pompous philanthropist.They join a charming Anna Lee in supporting Karloff as the embittered - and authentically rumpled - scientist