Why is it that Hulu is showing it as if it's a new movie from last year? It's as if I got sold week old bread and told that it was fresh baked. It's like you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for content.

Hatton lived an exemplorary life, a decorated war vet, eventually crippled and dead of acromegaly, a product of poison gas suffered fighting in WWI, which caused his distorted features, and got him a small pension. He was on his way to a career as "The Creeper" when he died at 60 in 1946. Most folks thought he was a terrific guy.Tom Neal, his costar, wasn't so fortunate. He starred in the classic "Detour" which makes the top 100 in anybody's list of noire greats, but in real life, got into scrape after scrape, first beating up Franchot Tone over an affair with girlfriend Barbara Payton in the early fifties, who uh, liked to get around, then in 1965 allegedly shooting his wife Gail in the back of the head with a .45, for which he served 6 years, when he dropped dead of a heart attack eight months after being paroled.It's what's inside that counts, doesn't it?

The movie entertained me. One poster remarked how poor Mr. Hatton was born with that face. He was probably glad to be working in film and not selling pencils on a street corner. I'm glad he got to be in movies. It's not like he was going to rival Cary Grant.

Pearl of Death (1944), House of Horrors(1945) and The Brute Man(1945) are all loosely connected "Creeper" films featuring Rondo Hatton as the Creeper. In real life Hatton suffered from acromegaly which caused his disfigurement and lead to his death before any of these three films were released in 1946 (they had been made during a change of leadership at Universal and were sold-off eventually to a third rate production company). It's one of those stock films made with stock music, and written by contract writers with a contract director and actors.. The acting is pretty bad, although Donald MacBride plays the Police Captain and does his usual able job. The sets are flimsy with offices substituting for police stations and what not. I wouldn't recommend it, it is quite tedious unless you are into film history.

I don't think so. More like 1946. Poor Mr. Hatton. He had a sickness that made him look like that.