The Mad Doctor
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1920Production year
1920Premiere
13 February 1920Director
Drahoš ŽelenskýCategory
filmGenre
detectiveTypology
featuretheatrical distributionOriginal title
Šílený lékařCzech title
Šílený lékařEnglish title
The Mad DoctorSynopsis
A young clerk loses her account book. It is found by a young unemployed man with whom the clerk falls in love. The young man answers a classified advertisement and starts work at a doctor's surgery who has just completed his fourth vivisection. The young man is not aware that he is to become the next object of the experimentation. Having dressed up the last corpse in the clothes of the unemployed man, the doctor takes it to the railway track so that it can be run over by a train. Urged by the clerk, the police begin a search and the case is entrusted to the famous detective, Gordon, who is soon on the trail of the mad doctor. He manages to apprehend the doctor and then hands him over to the police. The young man is saved and finds love in the arms of the bank clerk.
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Cast
Karel Želenský
šílený lékař MUDr. John Smith
Jaroslav Hurt
detektiv Harry Gordon
Laura Želenská
bankovní úřednice Maud Simpsonová
Drahoš Želenský
nezaměstnaný mladík Fred Osborne
Alois Škrdlík
policejní prezident
Vojtěch Záhořík
strážník
Karel Adámek
hlídač v parku
Anna Švarcová
lékařova žena
Antonín Zuna
policejní tajemník
Rudolf Mejkal
lékařova oběť
František Špaček
výpravčí ve stanici Vyšehrad
Jan Zelenka
hlídač
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Alfons Bohumil Šťastný (Šílený lékař – detektivní román ze seriálu o slavném detektivu Léonovi Cliftonovi)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production info
Original Title
Šílený lékař
Czech Title
Šílený lékař
English Title
The Mad Doctor
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
detective
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1920
Production Year
1920
Premiere
premiere 13 February 1920 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Koruna, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Technical info
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,33
Colour
black & white
Sound
silent
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
without dialogue
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Intertitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
