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We're celebrating manhood today on the Featured Threads! Cool

Nothing but manly, man-size stories about men who are well above your average Joe.

We start with The Man in Half Moon Street (1945), a hardy fellow who's well over one hundred years old but who doesn't look a day over thirty-something. What a man!

Then there's The Man They Could Not Hang (1939), which might have been due to the fact that he was already hung (and quite well, in fact).

And a man can't be hung twice, because it's both illegal and anatomically impossible.

Finally, we have The Man Who Lived Twice (1936), which is certainly quite an accomplishment. And unlike the man they tried to hang twice, this wasn't against the laws of either man or nature.

So, there you have it, men! Now, roll up your sleeves and get to work on a few macho replies to these manly movies!

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The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)

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From the play by Barre Lyndon comes this story about a 120-year old scientist (Nils Asther) who looks thirtysomething because of glands and organs misappropriated from others.

The story is set in London, so naturally Scotland Yard is on the case, hounding the killer's footsteps.

The villain wins a certain amount of viewer sympathy by falling in love with Helen Walker — which, alas, proves to be his fatal mistake. A good job all around makes this one a treat. Hammer later remade it as "The Man Who Could Cheat Death".

Directed by Ralph M. Murphy.
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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)



Excellent sci-fi in the medical science category, years ahead of its time.

Boris Karloff plays a noble scientist who labors to perfect an artificial heart and an organ transplant procedure. One of his loyal assistants volunteers for an experimental test that requires the young man to die and then be revived by the artificial heart.

The young man's girlfriend tries to stop the experiment by calling the police, but they arrive too late, interrupting the procedure before Karloff can revive the volunteer subject. When he dies as a result of this, Karloff is tried and hung for murder. A second assistant (Byron Foulger) uses the artificial heart to bring Karloff back to life, but Karloff is so embittered by the experience that he plots revenge on the judge and jury, trapping them in his sadistically booby-trapped house.

A gripping drama with a good supporting cast and a novel premise. Also starring Lorna Gray, Roger Pryor, Ann Doran, and Robert Wilcox. Directed by Nick Grinde.

Karloff's courtroom scene is prophetic as he declares that someday mankind while use organ transplants to save lives. The story was inspired by actual experiments conducted in the 1930s by biochemist Robert Cornish, who succeeded in restoring dogs to life after they had been gassed. He planned to test his methods on executed criminals, but the authorities wouldn't allow it.
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The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)



Ralph Bellamy plays an ugly, scar-faced criminal who submits to plastic surgery to change his face.

The operation not only makes him handsome, he literally forgets his past life of crime and becomes a reformed man. He becomes a doctor, but eventually he learns the hard way that he can't rid himself of his past quite so easily.

Directed by Harry Lachman. This concept later inspired the first major-studio 3-D movie, "Man in the Dark" in 1953, starring Edmond O'Brien.

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