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Line 2: An early [[Warner Brothers]] horror-comedy, released in 1932. It follows New York newspaperman Lee Taylor as he covers the investigation of a series of full-moon murders in which victims are strangled, cut with a scalpel, and partially cannibalized. Evidence points to the Academy of Surgical Research, where five ~~scientists -- including~~scientists—including the director, Dr. ~~Xavier -- have~~Xavier—have remained to continue their research while the students are on holiday. Desperate to protect the reputation of his institution, Xavier strikes a bargain with the police: he will bring the suspects to his Long Island mansion and monitor their vital signs as they watch staged reenactments of the crimes. If he can discover the killer within 48 hours, his name and the Academy's will not be revealed to the newspapers in connection with the murders. Line 10: ''Doctor X'' was shot in both black-and-white and Technicolor; it was one of the last films to use the two-strip Technicolor process. The color version was believed to be lost until 1978, when a print was discovered in Jack Warner's personal collection. This, in its restored form, is now considered the definitive print, and is<ref>to this troper's knowledge</ref> the only version to be released on home video. {{tropelist}} ~~=== ''Doctor X'' provides examples of: ===~~ * [[Prussia\|Ambiguously Prussian]] - Rowitz. * [[Artificial Limbs]] - Wells's hand. Line 16: * [[Beat Still My Heart]] - Wells's experiment, a heart kept alive in a jar. * [[Deadly Prank]] - Inverted. An [[Explosive Cigar]] saves Lee's life by startling the killer at a critical moment. * [[Disney Villain Death]] - Combined, gruesomely, with [[Kill It ~~With~~with Fire]]. * [[Electric Joy Buzzer]] - Averted. Such a device features prominently in the plot ({{spoiler\|and is even used as a weapon}}), but it's the realistic, mechanical kind. * [[Fan Service]] - Joanne's bathing suit. Line 32: * [[Narm]] - {{spoiler\|"Synthetic flesh! Synthetic flesh!"}} * [[Porn Stash]] - Haines's magazine of "French art," hidden in a book. * [[Red Right Hand]] - Three of the five doctors have physical oddities that could potentially mark them as villainous: Haines wears a [[Beard of Evil\|goatee]], Rowitz has a [[Good Scars, Evil Scars\|facial scar]] and a [[Eyepatch of Power\|dark]] [[High -Class Glass\|monocle]], and Duke [[Evil Cripple\|uses a wheelchair and crutches]]. Of the other two, Xavier is ordinary-looking and Wells's one-handedness actually exempts him from suspicion. * [[Relationship Writing Fumble]] (or possibly just a case of [[Have a Gay Old Time]]) - Joanne addresses her father as "darling." * [[Retroactive Recognition]] - Yup, that's [[King Kong\|Fay Wray]] as Joanne. Line 39: * [[Shadow Discretion Shot]] * [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]] - Leans heavily toward the comedic side, [[Shoo Out the Clowns\|except during the climax]]. * [[Spanner in ~~The~~the Works]] - Lee, during {{spoiler\|the second reenactment}}. * [[Spiritual Predecessor]] - To ''[[Mystery of the Wax Museum]]''. * [[Techno Babble]] - Xavier's explanation of the [[Lie Detector\|stress-detecting device]]: {{quote\| ''Gentlemen, I am now turning on the hundred-milliampere high-frequency coil. Your pulses are connected with the magnetic rotators, and each variation of your heartbeat reaction is amplified four thousand times. The rotor of the electrostatic machine is connected in multiple series with a bank of glass-plate condensors, and the discharge causes irradiations to the thermal tubes, which, in turn, indicate your increased pulse rate and nerve reactions.''}} * [[Trailers Always Lie]] - The original marketing depicted the film as a comedy-thriller-romance, deliberately concealing the substantial horror element. * [[Under Crank]] - Used, fairly subtly, in the final fight scene.