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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Directed by Nick Grindé
“TRANSFORMED BY THE HANGMAN'S NOOSE... from a doctor serving humanity, into a demon filled with hate and terrorizing blood-lust!”
Science Fiction, Horror, Crime · 1h 04m
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist 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 assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Cast
Boris Karloff
Dr. Henryk Savaard
Lorna Gray
Janet Savaard
Robert Wilcox
'Scoop' Foley
Roger Pryor
District Attorney Drake
Don Beddoe
Lieutenant Shane
Ann Doran
Betty Crawford
Joe De Stefani
Dr. Stoddard
Charles Trowbridge
Judge Bowman
Byron Foulger
Lang
Dick Curtis
Jury Foreman Clifford Kearney
James Craig
Juror Watkins
John Tyrrell
Juror Sutton
Crew
- Director
- Nick Grindé
- Screenplay
- Karl Brown
- Director of Photography
- Benjamin H. Kline
- Editor
- William A. Lyon
- Producer
- Wallace MacDonald
Details
- Release date
- 1939-08-17
- Runtime
- 1h 04m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Horror, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures