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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.
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".
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.
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- Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Nick Grinde
- 1939-08-17
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 ...
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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- Boris Karloff
- Nick Grinde
- Sci-Fi
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.
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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.
