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It's Classic Cretins and Creatures Tonight- When "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"!

It's the original version of an early horror classic that has had numerous remakes- as a castaway becomes a prisoner in a bizarre island compound featuring monstrous mutations and a maniacal mad man- It's the 1932 presentation of the H G Wells' science fiction saga- "Island of Lost Souls"!

Originally a Paramount film that was  part of a major acquisition by Universal as part of a deal to form a package of films to run on TV, this movie starts with a freighter spotting  a shipwreck survivor and taking him on board. The castaway Parker is confused by the load of various animals being transported to one Dr. Moreau's South Sea island- not to mention some of the odd looking crew mem...

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