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After five men previously acquitted of various criminal charges are murdered by a mysterious avenger known as Dr. Rx, police Inspector Hurd and Sergeant Sweeney ask private investigator Jerry Church to help them on the case. He takes the case after talking to Dudley Crispin, a brilliant attorney who had defended three of the murdered men. Crispin gains an acquittal for his latest client, Zarini, but the latter falls dead in the courtroom. Jerry marries Kit Logan, who becomes frightened and persuades Jerry to quit the case. He stays however after Ernie Paul, suspected of the Zarini murder, threatens to "get" him if he does not stay on and clear Paul. Dr. Rx captures Jerry and attempts to frighten him into insanity by strapping him on an operating table, and pretending to exchange the detectives brain for a gorilla.
A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again, leaving his calling card behind as evidence. All of his victims have been crooks who have escaped prosecution through legal loopholes and his hit list keeps growing. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church () but the crimes are baffling and involve death by strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorillas brain into a human body. is an offbeat horror-comedy film starring , veteran of such macabre classics as [link=tt0022827 and , and featuring (of The Three Stooges) as a bumbling police sergeant.
Patric Knowles
Private Detective Jerry Church
Lionel Atwill
Dr. Fish
Anne Gwynne
Kit Logan Church
Samuel S. Hinds
Dudley Crispin
Mona Barrie
Eileen Crispin
Shemp Howard
Det. Sgt. Sweeney
Paul Cavanagh
John Crispin
Edmund MacDonald
Det. Capt. Bill Hurd
Mantan Moreland
Horatio B.Fitz Washington
John Gallaudet
Ernie Paul
William Gould
Dist. Atty. Mason
Leyland Hodgson
Thomas- the Butler
Frank Austin
Jury Foreman
Gary Breckner
Announcer
Paul Bryar
Bailiff
Eddy Chandler
Cop Outside Church's Apartment
Ray Corrigan
Nbongo the Gorilla
Boyd Davis
Police Commissioner
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