The Man Who Could Cheat Death
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Music director Richard Rodney Bennett Country England | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 30 November 1959 (UK) Based on The Man in Half Moon Street by Barre Lyndon Cast (Dr. Georges Bonnet), (Janine Dubois), (Dr. Pierre Gerard), Arnold Marlé (Prof. Ludwig Weiss), (Margo Phillipe), (Insp. LeGris)Similar movies The Brides of Dracula , Dracula Untold , The Satanic Rites of Dracula , Dracula A.D. 1972 , Hotel Transylvania 2 , Blade: Trinity Tagline HIS HIDEOUS OBSESSION LED HIM TO COMMIT GHASTLY CRIMES OF PASSION AND VIOLENCE. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The man who could cheat death 1959
The Man Who Could Cheat Death is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Anton Diffring 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. It was released on 30 November 1959.
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Plot
In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet (Diffring) is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly murdering women and using their parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss (Arnold Marlé) to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard (Lee) into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois (Hazel Court), a young lady in whom both Bonnet and Gerard are romantically interested.
Cast
Production and reception
The film was made on a budget of £84,000. The lead role was originally offered to Peter Cushing, who turned it down only a few days before shooting started on 17 November 1958. The European release of the film featured a scene in which Hazel Court appeared topless.
The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films called the film an "odd mish-mash of mad scientist sci-fi flick and gothic flannel" that "suffers from an excess of dialogue and a lack of action."
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