| Man-Made Monster | |
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| Directed by | George Waggner |
| Screenplay by | Joseph West |
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| Produced by | Jack Bernhard |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Elwood Bredell |
| Edited by | Arthur Hilton |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $84,000[1] |
Man-Made Monster is a 1941 American science-fiction horror film directed by George Waggner and produced by Jack Bernhard for Universal Pictures. Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Lon Chaney Jr. (in his horror film debut) and Lionel Atwill. Man-Made Monster was re-released under various titles including Electric Man and The Mysterious Dr. R. Realart Pictures re-released the film in 1953 under the title The Atomic Monster as a double feature with The Flying Saucer (1950). On the film's original main title, there is no hyphen; it's simply Man Made Monster.
The plot resembles The Invisible Ray (1936), The Walking Dead (1936), and two decades later Indestructible Man (1956); that much later feature starred Chaney but was not directly inspired by Man-Made Monster.[2]
- ^ Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 117. ISBN 9780813158891.
- ^ Tom Weaver (2000). Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes: The Mutant Melding of Two Volumes of Classic Interviews. McFarland. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-7864-0755-2.