Boris Karloff
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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, [1] [2] a scientist who develops a procedure for bringing the dead back to life. When he is arrested and sentenced to be executed for murdering a young medical student who volunteered ...
- Columbia Pictures
- Leslie T. White, George Wallace Sayre
- August 17, 1939
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. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.
- (1.9K)
- Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Nick Grinde
- 1939-08-17
Despite this and his claim of innocence, he was sentenced to hang. After he survived three attempts at hanging, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He became popularly known as "the man they couldn't hang".
- c.19 March 1945 (aged 80), United States of America
Movie Info. An executed man returns from the grave to seek revenge against the killers who framed him and sent him to the gallows. Genre: Sci-fi. Original Language: English. Director: Nick Grinde.
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- Boris Karloff
- Nick Grinde
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
Nov 22, 2004 · John 'Babbacombe' Lee, famously dubbed ‘the man they could not hang’, perhaps should be renamed ‘The man they should not hang’. Inside Out and Lee Archive owner Ian Waugh,...
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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) is the first and perhaps the best in a series of four "mad scientist" films that Columbia produced within an eighteen month period. It is a surprisingly prophetic film as well, cloaked unassumingly in the guise of a B-movie horror film.
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.
