The Movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)
What Is It?: Considering
how full of cinematic possibilities H.G. Wells’s Island of Dr. Moreau is, it’s
quite impressive and a bit confounding that Erle C. Kenton’s 1932 adaptation
still has not been topped. Charles Laughton is the portrait of self-delighted
evil as the beast-rehabilitating doc. Richard Arlen is all sweaty angst as the
lone survivor of the shipwreck of the Lady Vain.
Why Today?: On
this day in the novel, the Lady Vain
wrecks.
