The Phantom Creeps

The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 film about a military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter who try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.
 * Directed by Ford Beebe. Written by George Plympton, Basil Dickey, and Mildred Barish.

12 SPINE-SHIVERING ACTION THUNDERBOLTS! Sinister scientists...foreign spies...federal agents...and a pretty girl...crashing through amazing adventures! (taglines)

Dr. Alex Zorka

 * [after surviving a car crash, Zorka notices the hitch hiker they picked up, who looks like him, is dead.] How fortunate, this will simplify everything!

Taglines

 * 12 SPINE-SHIVERING ACTION THUNDERBOLTS! Sinister scientists...foreign spies...federal agents...and a pretty girl...crashing through amazing adventures!
 * CRASHING...SMASHING...DASHING DYNAMITE! 12 spine-shivering chapters of thunderbolt action and amazing adventure!
 * A BLAZE OF DYNAMITE ACTION! Crashing...smashing...dashing through 12 spine-shivering chapters!

Cast

 * Bela Lugosi — Dr. Alex Zorka
 * Robert Kent — Capt. Bob West
 * Dorothy Arnold — Jean Drew
 * Edwin Stanley — Dr. Fred Mallory
 * Regis Toomey — Lt. Jim Daley, G-Man
 * Jack C. Smith — Monk, Dr. Zorka's assistant
 * Edward Van Sloan — Jarvis, foreign spy chief
 * Dora Clement — Ann Zorka
 * Anthony Averill — Rankin, a foreign spy
 * Hugh Huntley — Perkins, Dr. Mallory's lab assistant
 * Ed Wolff — The Robot