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The Body Snatcher (1957)
Directed by Fernando Méndez
Horror, Science Fiction · 1h 20m
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
Cast
Wolf Ruvinskis
Guillermo Santana
Carlos Riquelme
The Mad Scientist, alias Don Panchito
Crox Alvarado
Capt. Carlos Robles
Columba Domínguez
Lucía
E
Eduardo Alcaraz
Police Chief
Yerye Beirute
Cosme Ramírez, first henchman
I
Ignacio Navarro
Second Henchman
Arturo Martínez
Felipe Dorantes, wrestling promoter
Alberto Catalá
Rubio, wrestling trainer
G
Guillermo Hernández
El Lobo negro
L
Lee Morgan
A
Alejandro Cruz
El Tigre
Crew
- Director
- Fernando Méndez
- Writer
- Alejandro Verbitzky, Fernando Méndez
- Director of Photography
- Víctor Herrera
- Original Music Composer
- Federico Ruiz
- Editor
- Jorge Busto
Details
- Original title
- Ladrón de cadáveres
- Release date
- 1957-09-26
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish, Japanese
- Countries
- Mexico
- Production
- Internacional Cinematográfica