rock hudson second venture in the science fiction genre after second be embryo a film that combine element of the bride of frankenstein and pygmalion in one rather weird film about for lack of a good word a test tube baby that grow up to be barbara carrera . hudson be scientist experiment in organic development and get a chance to first experiment on his own doberman pincher when it be accidentally hit by his car . some pituitary secretion from the female dog be give to a prematurely bear puppy and it grow remarkably into an adult . exalt with his success and hudson take a fetus from a dead accident victim and give it some of the same stuff . what he get be barbara carrera . and she develop physically and intellectually at a prodigious rate . what she doesn not do be develop emotionally . still hudson pass her off a his new research assistant to friend and family like sister in law diane ladd and son john elerick and and daughter in law anne schedeen . embryo doesn not explore some of the real issue in this kind of science and it exploit them instead . the special effect a they be and be pretty second rate . hudson look like he lose interest in the project about halfway through the film . now what would have really be interest be if he have get boy child and it grow up to be a harlequin novel hero . now that would have be something rock hudson could have sink his teeth into .