The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

Directed by

Terence Fisher

Genre

fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 79 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A sculptor in 1890s Paris uses a glandular operation to keep himself young. He must find a new donor every ten years to survive.

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What happens

The Man Who Could Cheat Death is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, and Christopher Lee. Jimmy Sangster adapted the screenplay from the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon, which had been previously filmed in 1945. The Man Who Could Cheat Death was produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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