The Island of Dr. Moreau

Question: What did Dr. Moreau hope to accomplish by turning all of the animals into humans?

Answer: Science. More specifically, to prove that it could be done.

Phixius

Answer: I don't know which movie version you're referring to, but in the 1977 film, he stated by controlling and manipulating the genetic code, he could remove all the defects from humans. No more mental or physical handicaps. No inherent genes passed from generation to generation. No dwarfism, blind or deafness.

Thank you. And I was referring to this version.

Question: When Montgomery is giving injections to the beast people, he tells Douglas that the injections prevent them from retrogressing. What would they have retrogressed into?

Answer: The animals they had been before receiving Dr. Moreau's treatments.

Phixius

Continuity mistake: When Douglas is first walking through the creature settlement, his shirt sleeves are rolled up. In the next shot from the same scene, his sleeves have gone down.

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Sayer of the Law: To go on two legs is very hard. Perhaps four is better, anyway.

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Trivia: During filming, Val Kilmer became so difficult to work with, that after his final scene was filmed, director John Frankenheimer ordered his crew to "get that bastard off my set."

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