Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Island of Lost Souls is a 1932 American science fiction horror film starring Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi and Kathleen Burke. The film was directed by Erle C. Kenton and produced by Paramount Pictures from a script co-written by Philip Wylie, the movie was the first film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, published in 1896, about an obsessed scientist who is secretly conducting surgical experiments on animals on a remote island.
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Erle_C_Kenton directed Island of Lost Souls. He directed 131 films between 1916 and 1957 including the Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945) and The Cat Creeps (1946).
Bela Lugosi as the Sayer of the Law’s original—subsequently abandoned—look, created by makeup artist Wally Westmore and resembling a hornless satyr, or an insectoid variation on The Most Dangerous Game’s Dr. Zaroff, the other morally diminished tropical island kingpin Westmore designed (and went uncredited for) in 1932.
Kathleen Burke Wins Nationwide Contest! The Road to Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls
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Kathleen Burke Wins Nationwide Contest! The Road to Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls
The contest search for the Panther Woman