ALL SCI-FI

Bud Brewster · Last edited by Bud Brewster on Thu Oct 06, 2022 3:50 pm; edited 1 time in total

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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Bud Brewster · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2024 1:55 pm Post subject:

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YouTube has this two-minute clip (although it's labeled a "trailer"), and it certainly makes me want to see the movie!

Very impressive.

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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WadeVC · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 9:41 am Post subject:

Here is another one that I have not heard of, but it sounds interesting enough. Gonna have to track this down and give it a watch.
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 12:03 pm Post subject:

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Archive.org has a beautiful 1.1 GB version you can watch or download. Here's the link. Cool

Enjoy, Wade!

The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)