The Man They Could Not Hang

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Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1939
Country: USA
Runtime: 64
Languages: English
Director: Nick Grinde
Sound: Mono
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King of Horror...in his biggest role!

TRANSFORMED BY THE HANGMANS NOOSE...from a doctor serving humanity into a demon filled with hate...and terrorizing blood-lust!

Boris Karloff dares you to see this holocaust of horror!

Weird! Horrifying! Fascinating!

Boris Karloff..master monster of filmdom...terrifying as a doctor-turned-demon in a holocaust of horror!

Writing by: Karl Brown - writer
George Wallace Sayre - story
Leslie T. White - story

Produced by: Wallace MacDonald - producer

Cast: Boris Karloff - Dr. Henryk Savaard
Lorna Gray - Janet Savaard
Robert Wilcox - Scoop Foley
Roger Pryor - Dist. Atty. Drake
Don Beddoe - Police Lt. Shane
Ann Doran - Betty Crawford
Joe De Stefani - Dr. Stoddard
Charles Trowbridge - Judge Bowman
Byron Foulger - Lang
Dick Curtis - Clifford Kearney
James Craig - Watkins

Music: Edesio Alejandro
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Plot Outline: When Dr. Savaards experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.
Plot: Mad Scientist, Dr. Henryk Savaard, is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. The police are alerted of Savaards activities by his assistants girlfriend. Savaard is arrested, convicted and sentenced to hang. He vows revenge on the judge, jury and district attorney. After the hanging, his assistant claims Savaards body and uses Savaards technique on it. Savaard is brought back to life. Now he can seek sweet revenge on his prosecutors.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The opening credits roll up.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: A roll of duct tape is visible beside the typewriter in the doctors apartment.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Matsumoto threatened to revoke his approval of this OAV when he discovered that one of the enemy ships was to be shaped like a Jewish Star of David. Matsumoto, who is against racial intolerance, couldnt condone a religious symbol being used as a villains ship and demanded that the design be changed or he would derail the production. The matter was resolved amiably, and the ships design was completely overhauled.