"Man Made Monster" is memorable as Lon Chaney Jr.'s first monster movie. Here, he plays Dam McCormick a man who survived electrocution in a bus crash that killed the other passengers. Dr. John Lawrence (Samuel S, Hinds) an electro-biologist examines him in the hospital and is amazed that McCormick is showing no ill effects of the accident. He invites McCormick to his home.
Dr. Lawrence just happens to have a comely young daughter June (Anne Nagel) who takes an interest in Dan's well being along with her reporter friend Mark Adams (Frank Albertson). Lawrence also has everybody's favorite mad scientist Lionel Atwill as Dr. Paul Rigas, Lawrence's assistant performing experiments with electricity and it's effects on man.
Dr. Lawrence goes away to a convention and Dr. Rigas seizes his opportunity to experiment on Dan. Gradually he increases the doses of electricity into Dan's body until the poor man becomes no more than a shell of his former self. Finally Rigas gives Dan the maximum dose of electricity. Dan becomes super human and his skin begins to glow.
When Dr. Lawrence returns and questions Riga's methods, Riga has Dan who is now under Riga's influence, kill him. Dan is charged with murder and can only say under Riga's direction, "I killed him". Dan is sentenced to the electric chair but does not die in the execution chamber. Dan escapes and takes June across the moors until..............................................................
Lon Chaney Jr. would go on to everlasting fame in his next picture "The Wolf Man".
Dr. Lawrence just happens to have a comely young daughter June (Anne Nagel) who takes an interest in Dan's well being along with her reporter friend Mark Adams (Frank Albertson). Lawrence also has everybody's favorite mad scientist Lionel Atwill as Dr. Paul Rigas, Lawrence's assistant performing experiments with electricity and it's effects on man.
Dr. Lawrence goes away to a convention and Dr. Rigas seizes his opportunity to experiment on Dan. Gradually he increases the doses of electricity into Dan's body until the poor man becomes no more than a shell of his former self. Finally Rigas gives Dan the maximum dose of electricity. Dan becomes super human and his skin begins to glow.
When Dr. Lawrence returns and questions Riga's methods, Riga has Dan who is now under Riga's influence, kill him. Dan is charged with murder and can only say under Riga's direction, "I killed him". Dan is sentenced to the electric chair but does not die in the execution chamber. Dan escapes and takes June across the moors until..............................................................
Lon Chaney Jr. would go on to everlasting fame in his next picture "The Wolf Man".