Boris Karloff
Dr. Henryk Savaard
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A 1939 horror film starring Boris Karloff as a scientist who brings himself back to life after being executed for murder. He seeks revenge on the jurors who convicted him, but his daughter tries to stop him.
The Man They Could Not Hang: Directed by Nick Grinde. With Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor. When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death.
- (2K)
- Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Nick Grinde
- 1939-08-17
John Babbacombe Lee was an Englishman who survived three attempts to hang him for murder in 1885. He became known as "the man they couldn't hang" and later wrote a book about his life.
In this early sci-fi thriller, Boris Karloff is a doctor working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted ...
They arrest Savaard for murder before he even has a chance to use his machine; he's convicted and sentenced to death, but with his assistant Lang's help, he returns to exact his vengeance on the...
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- Boris Karloff
- Nick Grinde
- Sci-Fi
Convicted and sentenced to hang for murder, the doctor vows revenge on the judge, jury and district attorney. After the hanging, the doctor's trusted assistant claims his lifeless body and, using the mechanical device perfected by Savaard, brings him back to life.
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The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1939 American horror film directed by Nick Grinde from a screenplay by Karl Brown. It stars Boris Karloff as Dr. Henryk Savaard, a scientist who develops a procedure for bringing the dead back to life.
