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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.
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
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".
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 ...
Jun 13, 2021 · The Man They Could Not Hang (Columbia Pictures) (1939) Stars: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox. Scientist Dr Savaard creates a life-saving artificial heart, but his experiment is interrupted and he is sentenced to hang when the authorities intervene following the death of one his subjects.
- June 13, 2021
- The Museum of Cinema
- 61 min
- 127
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...
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- Sci-Fi
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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.
