# What Movie Was this? - "Hare raising" scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200 "2019-11-09T13:13:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/1 "2019-11-09T13:13:37Z")
I saw a movie and can’t find it with google. The movie was probably 1950s or 60s. It’s one of those evil scientist movies (a good one for MST3K) As I remember the scientist had come up with a machine that could bring back the dead. The scene I remember was the scientist demonstrating this with a rabbit. He put a dead rabbit on the table and then after lots of dramatic “science stuff” the rabbit came alive again. Does anybody know this one? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/2 "2019-11-09T15:42:55Z")
Night of the Lepus > **[Night of the Lepus (1972) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/)** > > Night of the Lepus: Directed by William F. Claxton. With Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley. Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/3 "2019-11-09T15:49:09Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Night of the Lepus > > [Night of the Lepus (1972) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/) That’s not it. Night of the Lepus was about was about giant mutant rabbits caused by experiments with hormones. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/4 "2019-11-09T15:51:21Z")
Apologies. Thats all I got. :o ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/5 "2019-11-09T19:23:00Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > I saw a movie and can’t find it with google. > The movie was probably 1950s or 60s. It’s one of those evil scientist movies (a good one for MST3K) > As I remember the scientist had come up with a machine that could bring back the dead. The scene I remember was the scientist demonstrating this with a rabbit. He put a dead rabbit on the table and then after lots of dramatic “science stuff” the rabbit came alive again. > Does anybody know this one? Yeah, I remember that scene too. The movie isn’t coming to me now, but I’ll probably think of it around 2:37 tomorrow morning. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/6 "2019-11-09T19:35:00Z")
Could be [THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X](https://monstermoviemusic.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-return-of-doctor-x-he-lives-to-kill.html?m=1), which features Bogie before he was, y’know, _Bogie_; and which has a mad scientist who “shows them that he has discovered the secret of bringing the dead back to life by reviving a dead rabbit.” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/7 "2019-11-09T19:43:15Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Could be [THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X](https://monstermoviemusic.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-return-of-doctor-x-he-lives-to-kill.html?m=1), which features Bogie before he was, y’know, _Bogie_; and which has a mad scientist who “shows them that he has discovered the secret of bringing the dead back to life by reviving a dead rabbit.” That’s the one I was thinking of, I think I caught part of it on TCM not too long ago. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/8 "2019-11-09T21:01:43Z")
Is this it? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tTa6gDfSN14/maxresdefault.jpg "It's Alive Again! | The Return of Doctor X | Warner Archive") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTa6gDfSN14) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/9 "2019-11-09T21:16:47Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > That’s not it. Night of the Lepus was about was about giant mutant rabbits caused by experiments with hormones. Leonard Nimoy played a military radio operator. A truck equipped with a public address system drove through the town, announcing, “Attention! A herd of killer rabbits is headed this way!” ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/10 "2019-11-09T23:58:41Z")
It is The Return of Doctor X. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/11 "2019-11-10T04:37:08Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Leonard Nimoy played a military radio operator. > A truck equipped with a public address system drove through the town, announcing, “Attention! A herd of killer rabbits is headed this way!” I knew Dr. McCoy was in Night of the Lepus (as was his predecessor as Enterprise CMO, Paul Fix), but are you sure Spock was as well? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/12 "2019-11-10T14:09:25Z")
^ Nimoy was in “Them!” (giant ant movie) as the radio operator. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-hare-raising-scene/843200/13 "2019-11-10T15:02:05Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ Nimoy was in “Them!” (giant ant movie) as the radio operator. That’s correct, my mistake.