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The Man with Nine Lives (1940) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1940 · 74 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Nick Grindé
- Starring
- Charles Halton, Boris Karloff, Eddie Dew, Charles Trowbridge, Bruce Bennett, Ernie Adams
Driven by a radical idea to cure cancer by freezing patients, Dr. Leon Kravaal murders in the name of science and entombs officials and himself in icy chambers. Decades later the frozen bodies are uncovered and revived, hoping he can finish the treatment, but greed and human frailty threaten to ruin the project.
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