A Blind Bargain

Usually watching a reconstructed film (using still photographs from the original shooting) is a disappointment. While this wasn't anything to write home about, it did star Lon Chaney, Sr., playing a mad scientist who injects ape glands into humans, turning them into man/beasts. A young man, desperate to save his mother from a possibly fatal illness, agrees to let Dr. Lamb (Chaney) operate on him. He has had two failures, but insists things will go well for the young man. But factors intervene, including a hunchback (failed experiment) and the doctor's wife, who knows the perils of her husband's obsessions. Nothing new here, pat ending, but a decent recovery of film.