MILL CREEK MAD SCIENTIST THEATER MONTH: Torture Ship (1939)
Directed by Victor Halperin (White Zombie, Supernatural) Torture Ship is based (extremely loosely) on Jack London’s 1899 short story A Thousand Deaths. This brief 64-minute oddity blends sci-fi, pre-code-style gangster tropes and maritime melodrama into a surprisingly fun, breezy exploitation flick. Irving Pichel stars as Dr. Herbert Stander, a rogue physician obsessed with proving that […]
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