The Return of Doctor X (1939) Starring: Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan. Directed by Vincent Sherman. Screenplay by Lee Katz. Based on the short story "The Doctor's Secret" by William J. Makin in Detective Fiction Weekly (30 Jul 1938). Producer (Executive Producer): Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis. Run time: 63 minutes. USA Black and White. Mystery. Horror.
If you ever needed proof that Warner Bros. didn’t know what
they had in Humphrey Bogart, you need look no further than The Return of Doctor X. Signed, at the insistence of Leslie Howard, to recreate his stage
success as Duke Mantee, the psychotic gangster in The Petrified Forest
(1935), Bogart landed at a studio that already had two gangster stars on the
payroll, James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. Warners used Bogart in as many
films as they could, including seven in 1939 alone.
