The Mad Doctor Of Market Street (1942)

An unethical scientist (Lionel Atwill) does experiments on live humans. He puts them into a state of suspended animation with the intention of reviving them at a later date. But when one of his subjects (Hardie Albright) dies during the process, he flees the country and takes a ship to New Zealand but fate takes a hand when the ship sinks and he and five other passengers are stranded on a desert island. Directed by Joseph L. Lewis (GUN CRAZY), this economical Universal horror programmer is short enough (its running time barely over an hour) so that it doesn't have time to lose any steam and plows ahead for an entertaining B movie horror. As usual with these films, there's always someone around for comic relief and in this case, there are two of them. Fortunately, they are amusing rather than annoying. There's Una Merkel as a ditzy Aunt and Nat Pendelton as a muscle bound boxer. I enjoyed it. The rest of the cast includes Anne Nagel, Richard Davies, Claire Dodd and John Eldredge.