The MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG
- The MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG
Film (1939). Columbia. Dir Nick Grinde, starring Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor. Screenplay Karl Brown, based on a story by Leslie T. White and George W. Sayre. 72 mins. B/w.
A kindly SCIENTIST (Karloff) invents a mechanical heart, and one of his students volunteersto undergo clinical death to test it; a police raid at the critical moment prevents this and the student dies. Karloff is executed for murder, but arranges to be revived with the artificial heart. Now vindictive, he lures judge, jury and witnesses to a booby-trapped house where he proceeds to dispose of them in turn. His daughter intervenes and is accidentally killed by one of the lethal devices. He revives her at the cost of his own life. Like most sf films of the period, TMTCNH has little real science; it is, rather, a Gothic melodrama of retribution.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
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2011.
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