The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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09.25.09
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Mad Scientist, Dr. Henryk Savaard, is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. The police are alerted of Savaard's activities by his assistant's girlfriend. Savaard is arrested, convicted and sentenced to hang. He vows revenge on the judge, jury and district attorney. After the hanging, his assistant claims Savaard's body and uses Savaard's technique on it. Savaard is brought back to life. Now he can seek sweet revenge on his prosecutors.
Movie Tagline:
TRANSFORMED BY THE HANGMAN'S NOOSE...from a doctor serving humanity into a demon filled with hate...and terrorizing blood-lust!
Title: Man They Could Not Hang, The
Release Date: August 17, 1939
Runtime: 64 mins
Genre: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 6.6
Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.6 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With M
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director(s):
Nick Grinde
Cast:
Boris Karloff ...Dr. Henryk Savaard
Lorna Gray ...Janet Savaard
Robert Wilcox ...Scoop Foley
Roger Pryor ...District Attorney Drake
Don Beddoe ...Police Lt. Shane
Ann Doran ...Betty Crawford
Joe De Stefani ...Dr. Stoddard
Charles Trowbridge ...Judge Bowman
Byron Foulger ...Dr. Lang
Dick Curtis ...Jury Foreman Clifford Kearney
James Craig ...Juror Watkins
John Tyrrell ...Juror Sutton
George Anderson ...Prison Warden
Sam Ash ...Druggist
Stanley Blystone ...Prison Guard
Harlan Briggs ...Defense Attorney Parker
Stanley Brown ...Bob Roberts (the victim)
Flo Campbell ...Housewife
John Dilson ...King (city editor)
Carl Faulkner ...Bailiff
Chuck Hamilton ...Juror
Frank Jaquet ...Fat Juror
Kenner G. Kemp ...Reporter
William Lally ...Bailiff
Perc Launders ...Bailiff
Larry Lund ...Court Clerk
Ian Maclaren ...Priest
Charles McAvoy ...Prison Official
Charles Miller ...Dr. Avery (juror)
Bert Moorhouse ...Reporter
» [more cast members]
Producer(s):
Wallace MacDonald
Writer(s):
Karl Brown
George Wallace Sayre
Leslie T. White
More Movie Taglines:
- TRANSFORMED BY THE HANGMAN'S NOOSE...from a doctor serving humanity into a demon filled with hate...and terrorizing blood-lust!
- King of Horror...in his biggest role!
- To the law...he was a murderer!...to society, a samaritan!
- Boris Karloff dares you to see this holocaust of horror!
- Weird! Horrifying! Fascinating!
- Boris Karloff..master monster of filmdom...terrifying as a doctor-turned-demon in a holocaust of horror!
Movie Quote(s):
- Bob Roberts: [Enthusiatically] I'll be under anesthesia, that's all. There's nothing to it! Betty Crawford: Well, what if he can't bring you back? Bob Roberts: He won't miss! Why, inside of two hours we'll be eating chop suey and fighting about where we'll be going on our honeymoon.
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Dr. Henryk Savaard: We've taken a human life! If we can't restore that life, the law will call it murder.
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Dr. Henryk Savaard: Think of it! The Edison or Pasteur of tomorrow need not die merely because his heart is worn out. We'll give him a new heart taken perhaps from the body of a young man who's been killed in a automobile accident. And our great genius is awakened to another sixty years of useful life! You ask me if that's a benefit to mankind? I answer it's the gift of eternal life! But whether man's wise enough or old enouh to receive such a gift, I don't know. I don't know!
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Dr. Henryk Savaard: You who have condemned me, I know your kind. Your forbears poisoned Socrates, burned Joan of Arc, hanged, tortured all those whose offense was to bring light into darkness. For you to condemn me in my work is a crime so shameful that the judgement of history will be against you for all the years to come!
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Dr. Henryk Savaard: Always remember I offered you life, and you gave me death!
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Keywords:
Revenge, Hanging, District Attorney, Cryonics, Police ...[more]
Keywords All:
Experiment, Jury, Mad Scientist, Vengeance, Rigor Mortis, Execution, Police Raid, Moral Dilemma, Heart Transplant, Reference To Pasteur, Murder, Death Threat, Death Penalty, Father Daughter Relationship, Conspiracy, Volunteer Test Subject, Narcissism, Visionary vs Reactionary, Stabbed In The Ear, Life After Death, Beautiful Woman, Reference To Thomas Edison, Nurse, Back From The Dead, Agnostic, Artificial Heart, Electrocution, Futuristic Medicine, Fiancee, Police Surgeon, Closing Argument, Research, Panicky Nurse, Remake, Reanimation, Jury Deliberation, Needle In Phone Receiver, Experimental Science, Reference To Socrates, Reporter, Surgery, Shotgun, Spirituality, Trapped Inside, Butler, Laboratory, Loudspeaker, Murder Trial
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Rating: 7.6 out of 10.0 - 63 votes cast total
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