TL:DR The Mad Ghoul (1943) is freely available in good quality at the Internet Archive; it's a silly 'Jekyll & Hyde' variant that shouldn't tax anybody's brain cells. It doesn't pretend to be anything else.
George Zucco, uncannily like Ralph Richardson, is excellent as a barking mad older scientist obsessed with up and coming singer Evelyn Ankers, who does that kind of 'yawny' 1940s crooning popularised by such as Deanna Durbin. She wants to ditch 'Ted' (David Bruce, who is very good, especially at falling over - he turns into a sort of Lou Reed meets Fred Munster occasionally) for 'Eric' (Turhan Bey), her smooth pianist, which means Dr. George has another young suitor to get rid of.
It wouldn't do to question the scientific, journalistic, legal, medical or psychological procedures of anything that happens; just go with it, it's all logical within its own universe. They weren't up to speed with 'schizophrenia', even, calling it 'scizzophrenia'. But hey, Mayan poison gas and auto-heart transplants are a stretch too.
It's a pantomime, and not a terrible one at that, and the fact that the available version is clean and clear is a big help.
George Zucco, uncannily like Ralph Richardson, is excellent as a barking mad older scientist obsessed with up and coming singer Evelyn Ankers, who does that kind of 'yawny' 1940s crooning popularised by such as Deanna Durbin. She wants to ditch 'Ted' (David Bruce, who is very good, especially at falling over - he turns into a sort of Lou Reed meets Fred Munster occasionally) for 'Eric' (Turhan Bey), her smooth pianist, which means Dr. George has another young suitor to get rid of.
It wouldn't do to question the scientific, journalistic, legal, medical or psychological procedures of anything that happens; just go with it, it's all logical within its own universe. They weren't up to speed with 'schizophrenia', even, calling it 'scizzophrenia'. But hey, Mayan poison gas and auto-heart transplants are a stretch too.
It's a pantomime, and not a terrible one at that, and the fact that the available version is clean and clear is a big help.