The Man with Nine Lives (film)
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| Directed by | Nick Grinde |
| Written by | Harold Shumate |
| Screenplay by | Karl Brown |
| Produced by | Irving Briskin Wallace MacDonald |
| Starring | Boris Karloff Roger Pryor |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
| Edited by | Al Clark |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Man with Nine Lives is a 1940 American science fiction mystery film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Boris Karloff.[1]
Both The Man with Nine Lives and The Man They Could Not Hang were based in part on the real-life saga of Dr. Robert Cornish, a University of California professor who, in 1934, announced he had restored life to a dog named Lazarus that he had put to death by clinical means. The resulting publicity (including a Time magazine article and motion picture footage of the allegedly re-animated canine) led to Cornish being booted off campus.[2]
Plot
Dr. Tim Mason (Roger Pryor), a medical researcher experimenting in "frozen therapy" visits the deserted home of Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff), the originator of the therapy, who has been missing for ten years. After discovering a secret passage in the basement, Dr. Mason and his nurse (Jo Ann Sayers) discover Kravaal and four other men frozen in a pair of hidden ice chambers. The doctor and nurse successfully revive Kravaal, who then revives the other four men. Things turn more sinister as Kravaal holds everyone captive in order to use them as guinea pigs, hoping to unlock the key to "frozen therapy."
Cast
- Boris Karloff as Dr. Leon Kravaal
- Roger Pryor as Dr. Tim Mason
- Jo Ann Sayers as Judith Blair
- Stanley Brown as Bob Adams
- John Dilson as John Hawthorne
- Wally Wales as Sheriff Ed Stanton (as Hal Taliaferro)
- Byron Foulger as Dr. Henry Bassett
- Charles Trowbridge as Dr. Harvey
- Ernie Adams as Pete Daggett
See also
References
- ^ Stephen Jacobs, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomohawk Press 2011 p 258-259
- ^ "The Man with Nine Lives (1940) - Articles - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
