The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Boris Karloff
Dr. Henryk Savaard
Lorna Gray
Janet Savaard
Robert Wilcox
'Scoop' Foley
Roger Pryor
District Attorney Drake
Don Beddoe
Lieutenant Shane
Ann Doran
Betty Crawford
Joe De Stefani
Dr. Stoddard
Charles Trowbridge
Judge Bowman
Byron Foulger
Lang
Dick Curtis
Kearney
James Craig
Juror Watkins
John Tyrrell
Juror Sutton
Nick Grinde
Director
Karl Brown
Writer
George Anderson
Prison Warden (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Leslie T. White
Writer
Sam Ash
Druggist (uncredited)
George Wallace Sayre
Writer
Harlan Briggs
Defense Attorney Parker (uncredited)
Benjamin H. Kline
Cinematographer
Stanley Brown
Bob Roberts (uncredited)
William A. Lyon
Editor
Flo Campbell
Housewife (uncredited)
John Dilson
King - City Editor (uncredited)
Carl Faulkner
Bailiff (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Juror (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet
Cigar-Smoking Fat Juror (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Reporter (uncredited)
William Lally
Bailiff (uncredited)
Perc Launders
Bailiff (uncredited)
Larry Lund
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Ian Maclaren
Priest (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
Prison Official (uncredited)
Charles Miller
Dr. Avery - Juror (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Reporter (uncredited)
Franklin Parker
Second Reporter (uncredited)
Tom Quinn
Reporter (uncredited)
Bob Reeves
Juror (uncredited)
Walter Sande
Reporter at Typewriter (uncredited)
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Details.
Release DateAugust 17, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 4m
Content RatingNR
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Wiki.
The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1939 American horror film directed by Nick Grinde from a screenplay by Karl Brown. It stars Boris Karloff as Dr. Henryk Savaard, a scientist who develops a procedure for bringing the dead back to life. When he is arrested and sentenced to be executed for murdering a young medical student who volunteered to be killed to test the procedure, Savaard vows retribution on the individuals responsible. Alongside Karloff, the film's cast includes Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, and Roger Pryor.
The Man They Could Not Hang is the first in a series of four similarly-themed but otherwise unrelated horror films produced by Columbia Pictures, all starring Karloff, informally known as the "Mad Doctor Cycle." It was followed by The Man with Nine Lives, Before I Hang (both 1940), and The Devil Commands (1941). A fifth, The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942), was a parody of the others.