The Island of Dr. Moreau
an extract from Robert Cettl's book Film Talk: Quoting the Movies in the Age of DVD (on sale now in print and soon in e-book)
One of the great megalomaniacal medical villains in science fiction is undoubtedly H.G. Wells’ creation Dr. Moreau. Most recently played by Marlon Brando in the ill-fated The Island of Dr. Moreau, this arguable eugenicist sought to perfect the human race by eliminating troublesome genes and in the process combine animals and humans, hence he admits:
“I have almost achieved perfection you see, of a divine creature that is pure, harmonious, absolutely incapable of any malice. And if in my tinkering I have fallen short of the human form by the snout, claw or hoof, it really is of no great importance.”