The Man With Nine Lives (1940)

The Man With Nine Lives (1940)

„The Man With Nine Lives“ is a 1940 horror science fiction film directed by Nick Grinde. The screenplay by Karl Brown is based on a story by Harold Shumate.

In this suspenseful film, Boris Karloff stars as a near-crazed scientist seeking a cure for cancer by freezing bodies in suspended animation … and winds up frozen himself. When the family of a man Karloff has frozen comes snooping around, Karloff accidentally drugs them along with himself, but they are revived ten years later by a researcher, Pryor.

Cast:

• Boris Karloff – Dr. Leon Kravaal
• Roger Pryor – Dr. Tim Mason
• Jo Ann Sayers – Judith Blair
• Stanley Brown – Bob Adams
• John Dilson – John Hawthorne
• Hal Taliaferro – Sheriff Stanton
• Byron Foulger – Dr. Bassett
• Charles Trowbridge – Dr. Harvey
• Ernie Adams – Pete Daggett
• Charles Halton – Doctor in Front Row in Final Scene
• James Conaty – Doctor Spectator
• William Marion – Doctor Spectator
• Wedgwood Nowell – Doctor Spectator
• Cyril Ring – Doctor Spectator
• Landers Stevens – Doctor Spectator
• Charles Miller – Doctor Spectator Explaining Procedure
• Eddie Dew – Doctor Spectator Listening to Explanation
• Lee Willard – Frozen Body of Jasper Adams
• Minta Durfee – Frozen Therapy Patient
• Ivan Miller – Sheriff Haley
• Bruce Bennett – State Trooper