Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Actors: Robert Milasch (actor), Alan Ladd (actor), Bela Lugosi (actor), Charles Laughton (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), Bob Kortman (actor), Stanley Fields (actor), Richard Arlen (actor), John George (actor), Arthur Hohl (actor), Paul Hurst (actor), George Irving (actor), Robert P. Kerr (actor), Tetsu Komai (actor), Constantine Romanoff (actor),

Plot: After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a whip-cracking task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. He does have one prize result, Lota the beautiful panther woman. Parker's fortunes for escape look up after his fiancée Ruth finds him with the help of fearless Captain Donohue. However, when Moreau's tribe of near-humans rises up to rebel, no one is safe...

Keywords: american-abroad, animal, based-on-novel, cat-woman, consulate, creature-feature, cult-film, doctor, dog, duplicity
Genres: Adventure, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island...Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!

Quotes:

Dr. Moreau: Mr. Parker, do you know what it means to feel like God?

Dr. Moreau: What is the law?::Sayer of the Law: Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?::Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?::Dr. Moreau: What is the law?::Sayer of the Law: Not to go on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men?::Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?::Dr. Moreau: What is the law?::Sayer of the Law: Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men?::Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?

Ruth Thomas: [hearing chanting] What's that?::Dr. Moreau: The natives, they have a curious ceremony. Mr. Parker has witnessed it.::Ruth Thomas: Tell us about it, Edward.::Edward Parker: Oh, it's... it's nothing.::Dr. Moreau: They are restless tonight.

Dr. Moreau: She's never seen anything like him.::Mr. Montgomery: No?::Dr. Moreau: You and I don't count. The only reactions we get from her are fear and terror.::Mr. Montgomery: That's understandable.::Dr. Moreau: But how will she respond to Parker where there's no cause for fear? Will she be attracted? Is she capable of being attracted? Has she a woman's emotional impulses? I could scarcely hope for a chance like this short of London.

Edward Parker: Those poor things out there in the jungle. Those animals. They - They talk.::Dr. Moreau: That was my first great achievement. Articulate speech controlled by the brain. And it was a great achievement! Oh, it takes a long time and infinite patience to make them talk.::[Moreau gives an impish smile and a chuckle]::Dr. Moreau: Someday I will create a woman and it'll be easier.

Dr. Moreau: Did you see that, Montgomery? She was tender like a woman. Oh, how that little scene spurs the scientific imagination onward.

Captain Donahue: That jungle don't look any too inviting.::Ruth Thomas: We must go on. We've got to find him.::Captain Donahue: All right. I'd just as soon leave it for somebody else to do. If there was anybody else here to do it.

Captain Donahue: What kind of a place did you say this was, Doc?::Dr. Moreau: I didn't say.

Captain Davies: Now men, stay sober! Any drinkin' to be done, I'll do it myself.

Dr. Moreau: Have you forgotten the house of pain?::Sayer of the Law: You! You made us in the house of pain! You made us... things! Not men! Not beasts! Part man... part beast! Things!