The Man They Could Not Hang
- The Man They Could Not Hang
Infobox Film | name = The Man They Could Not Hang
caption = Poster for the film "The Man They Could Not Hang"
director = Nick Grinde
producer = Wallace MacDonald
writer =Karl Brown
George Wallace Syre
Leslie T. White
starring =Boris Karloff
Lorna Gray
music (non-original) = R.H Bassett and others
cinematography = Benjamin H. Kline
editing = William A. Lyon
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = November 1947 (rerelease)
runtime = 64 min
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:31093
imdb_id = 0031614
"The Man They Could Not Hang" is a (1939) low-budget horror film produced by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of "The Ninth Guest" (1934). It was directed by Nick Grinde and starred Boris Karloff as Dr. Henryk Savaard.
Dr. Savaard is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. A young medical student offers his services to him. He accidentally dies and Savaard is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to hang. He vows revenge on the judge and the jury before his hanging. His assistant claims his body and revives him by using his technique. The vengeful Savaard goes on a killing spree.
"The Man They Could Not Hang" was also the title given to the convicted murderer John "Babbacombe" Lee. After three failed attempts to hang him, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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
* John Tyrrell - Sutton
ee also
* Boris Karloff filmography
External links
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