The Island of Lost Souls (1933)
This diorama is a blending of two separate kits. The jungle “girl” was added to enhance the scene of Moreau asking his creations, “What is the law?” This piece is one of my favorites.
Kitmaker: Unknown
From Wikipedia:
Island of Lost Souls is a sci-fi/horror film starring Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi. Produced by Paramount Pictures in 1933 from a script co-written by science fiction legend Philip Wylie, the movie was the first film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, published in 1896. The film was directed by Erle C. Kenton.
Both book and movie are about a remote island that is run by an obsessed scientist who is secretly conducting surgical experiments on animals. The goal of these experiments is to try to transform the animals into human beings. The result of the experiments is a race of half-human, half-animal creatures that lives in the island’s jungles, only tentatively under Moreau’s control.