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Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 12:31 pm Post subject: Before I Hang (1940)

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Scientist Boris Karloff labors to develop a rejuvenation serum for elderly patients.

Frustrated by failure, Karloff takes pity on an elderly, suffering patient and commits a mercy killing, for which he is convicted of murder. The authorities allow him to continue his rejuvenation experiments in prison while he awaits his hanging.

Using a blood sample from a young condemned murderer, Karloff mixes a serum and injects himself with it. The serum works and he becomes young again!

Later, his sentence is commuted to life imprisonment, but one day he succumbs to a violent urge and strangles the prison doctor. After serving part of his sentence, he receives a pardon and goes back to practicing medicine.

Repeated occurrences of the homicidal tendency finally convince Karloff that the blood of the murderer he used in his serum has transformed him into a compulsive killer.

Directed by Nick Grinde.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:06 am Post subject:

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It's not actually a trailer, it's an interest two-minute clip from this film, with a high quality picture. I've heard good things about this one, but I couldn't find a site that offered a download.

Oh well . . . Sad

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Rick · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 1:59 pm Post subject:

When I saw this back in 1962 on Shock Theater, I thought it was excellent. For more than 50 years I would have called it the second best of Karloff's Columbia "mad scientist" movies.

Finally saw it again a couple of years ago. Borrrriiingg. I don't know what 12-year-old me saw in it, but, whatever it was, it sure ain't there no more.
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Man need not kneel before the angels,
Nor lie in death forever,
But for the weakness of his feeble will.

orzel-w · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 1876

Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:43 pm Post subject:

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Sad but true, gentlemen.

And yet we've also seen movies when were kids that we didn't fully appreciate, and years later we discovered the merits of these movies through wiser eyes.

Life is like a pretzel. That's why is goes so well with beer. Very Happy

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)