After watching THE MAD DOCTOR (1940) the other night I have a new favorite Basil Rathbone performance. Not that I've ever seen a bad performance from Mr. Rathbone! It might be that he was such a good actor that I may have taken him for granted. I may have seen him in too many Sherlock Holmes roles or as the villain in too many Errol Flynn swashbucklers to fully appreciate just how nuanced and effective an actor he could be. The Mad Doctor gives him the chance to shade his character in a number of scenes so that the audience is pulled along not just by the plot mechanics of the admittedly interesting story but also by the fact that Rathbone’s character’s motivations and desires shift and change over the course of the movie. It is his subtle acting, his incredible vocal performance that gives the viewer real insight into the changes happening to his character long before he has to spell it out to his partner in crime. His work is stunning in this film and I highly recommend it to people who have yet to see it. Oh! The film is quite good as well even with a slightly weak performance opposite Rathbone and an odd, out of place sound effect added to the final scene.
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