The Man with Nine Lives (1940)

Directed by

Nick Grinde

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 14m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor develops a method to revive the dead. Boris Karloff plays a scientist who conducts risky experiments with life and death.

clinicalsuspensefulsombermethodicaleerieretroacademicexperimental

What happens

The Man with Nine Lives is a 1940 American horror science fiction film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Boris Karloff. Both The Man with Nine Lives and The Man They Could Not Hang were based in part on the real-life saga of Dr. Robert Cornish, a University of California professor who, in 1934, announced that he had restored life to a dog named Lazarus, which he had put to death by clinical means. The resulting publicity (including a Time magazine article and motion picture footage of the allegedly re-animated canine) led to Cornish being booted off campus. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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