Maniac (1934)
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Top billed cast
Bill WoodsDon Maxwell
Horace B. CarpenterDr. Meirschultz- Ted EdwardsBuckley
- Phyllis DillerMrs. Buckley
- Theo RamseyAlice Maxwell
- Jenny DarkMaizie
- Marvelle AndreMarvel
- Celia McCannJo
- John P. WadeEmbalmer
- Marian Constance BlacktonNeighbor
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