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The Man with Nine Lives
Release Date: April 18, 1940
Year | : | 1940 |
Slogan | : | «He kills in the name of science...Tombs of ice for the living...Chambers of horror for the dead!» |
Genres | : | Science Fiction |
Production Companies | : | Columbia Pictures |
Director | : | Nick Grinde |
Producers | : | Wallace MacDonald, Irving Briskin |
Writers | : | Harold Shumate, Karl Brown |
RunTime | : | 74 mins. |
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
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