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The Man with Nine Lives

The Man with Nine Lives

1940Movie⏱️ 1h 14mApproved
HorrorMysterySci-Fi
⭐ 6.5
IMDB Rating
1,282 votes

A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.

Director
Nick Grinde
Writers
Karl Brown, Harold Shumate
Stars
Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers
Release Date
April 18, 1940
Language
English
Country
United States
πŸ’¬ 38
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff
as Dr. Leon Kravaal
Roger Pryor
Roger Pryor
as Dr. Tim Mason
Jo Ann Sayers
Jo Ann Sayers
as Judith Blair
Stanley Brown
Stanley Brown
as Bob Adams
John Dilson
John Dilson
as John Hawthorne
Hal Taliaferro
Hal Taliaferro
as Sheriff Stanton
Byron Foulger
Byron Foulger
as Dr. Bassett
Charles Trowbridge
Charles Trowbridge
as Dr. Harvey
Ernie Adams
Ernie Adams
as Pete Daggett
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
as State Trooper

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Production
Columbia Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

experimentcryogenicshuman guinea pignursepsychotronic film

🎯 Categories

HorrorMysterySci-Fi

⭐ Featured Review

An early 'mad scientist' slant on cryogenics
by AlsExGal β€’ 2020-06-24
7/10

"Roger Pryor is a doctor who has success 'curing' patients by lowering their body temperatures. He is urged to publish his results, but wants to know more about the work of a doctor who pioneered the science, then vanished ten years before. Pryor and his nurse/girlfriend Jo Ann Sayers set out to find the last known address of the doctor, Boris Karloff (who else?) to see if he left any notes behind. Not only do they find his notes, they find him..frozen in a room 91 steps (they counted) below his laboratory. They thaw him out, and he tells what happened a decade before..how 3 officials..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

The word "cancer" was normally not permitted by the Production Code (it was usually replaced by a tame euphemism such as "long illness"), but perhaps because this was not considered an important picture, they somehow allowed it to pass.

πŸ“– Synopsis

A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.