DKosty123 This film does look to be very heavily edited before release. I wonder what they took out? What they left in is strange indeed.Bogart out of place as a criminal who gets the electric chair and then is brought back to life in some of the most ghoulish make-up you will ever see. Egad, after some of the better times he is strangely cast in a film, this one has got to be the worst.Bogart's star value at WB did not happen until after this one. If you want him in a better film of this genre, check out the film which stars Edward G. Robinson - Dr. Clitterhouse - of somebody. In that one Bogart is a heavy with a pretty decent role.In this one he is sort of a Frankenstein, and he acts as out of place as he is in this one. Only for curious people who to check out a great actor in an unsuitable role.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . in the context of Sam Spade's office or Rick's American Cafe, but it matches Bogie's pasty face and the white shoe polish in his hair for this spoof of FRANKENSTEIN, 1939's THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X. Warner Bros. bravely asks the question, "Why go to all the trouble to winch up an overloaded gurney through a lightning rod-covered castle turret, when the government will electrocute your prospective monster for you, free of charge?" Dr. Francis Flegg feels great sympathy toward Bogart's "Dr. X," who runs afoul of the law simply because his research involves starving random Under Class kids to death at an isolated duck hunters' clubhouse. After all, it's not as if Dr. X murdered the Lindbergh Baby. But since Bogart never was as cute as Casey Anthony, he gets fried. Dr. Flegg revives this monster with "synthetic blood," ignoring the fact that the first syllable of his concoction sounds a lot like "sin." Naturally, Flegg-Enstein's Monster tries to do in his Creator (perhaps because of the Mark of Cain in his hair, which looks just as bad when you spell Cain "Q-U-E-S-N-E"). After viewing 1930s Hollywood flicks such as THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X, it's not hard to see where the Nazi "research doctors" came up with most of their Weird Science ideas.

JoeB131 The title character was supposed to be played by Boris Karlof, which would have actually made sense. Instead, they put in Humphrey Bogart, proving the old adage there are no bad actors, just bad casting.THis movie was also hawked as a sequel to 1932's "Doctor X", but really, it wasn't. Totally different character named Doctor Xaiver. But he did return (from the dead) and he was Dr. X, so let's go with that. Hollywood's assumption that we are all stupid didn't start in the modern era.The plot gets rolling when a reporter finds a dead actress in her hotel room, and then she vanishes. Then she turns up again alive. After losing his job, he goes to his doctor friend, and the investigation is afoot.And here's the problem. Bogey was best in character driven film noir. He just doesn't work here, he doesn't create the sense of either menace or sympathy Karlof would have created in the same character.

johnc2141 i am a huge fan of b movies,especially when they have good actors in them.i am also a fan of the old warner brothers gangster movies with James Cagney,Humphrey Bogart,and George Raft.well return of Dr x is the only horror film that Humphrey Bogart ever made.there's a rumor that he was being punished by warner brothers to do this movie.that might be.but i think it was one of his better movies,Bogart plays a zombie like creature named Dr Kane who must kill to get blood,now it sounds like a vampire.well Kane was brought back to life by another Dr after he was executed in the electric chair for being a child murderer.sort of like an early version of Freddy Krueger.the title is very misleading,it is not a sequel to 1932s Dr x.the early two tone color horror starring;Lionel Atwill,and Fay Wray.it is a very interesting rare gem of a b movie that could've starred Boris Karloff who I'm sure was intended for the role.but to see Humphrey Bogart as a zombie vampire walking dead guy its unusual to say the least.i was impressed with return of Dr x.