The Man With Nine Lives (Behind the Door) (1940)
Release Date: Apr 18, 1940 Wide
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Man with Nine Lives (released in England as Behind the Door) is the second of Columbia's unofficial "Mad Doctor" series starring Boris Karloff. This time, Boris is obsessed with the notion that he can come up with a cure for cancer. To do this, it is necessary for Karloff to freeze his patients, then use a revolutionary new serum on the bodies while they're in a state of suspended animation. Alas, Karloff is accidentally locked up with his deep-frozen subjects. When thawed out years later, he
Apr 18, 1940 Wide
Oct 4, 2005
Sony Pictures Entertainment
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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 -
Charles Trowbridge
Dr. Harvey -
Ernie S. Adams
Pete Daggett -
Bruce Bennett
State Trooper -
Byron Foulger
Dr. Bassett -
Ivan Miller
Sheriff Haley -
Wally Wales
Sheriff Stanton -
Lee Willard
Jasper Adams
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It stars Boris Karloff at his deliciously insane best as a mad scientist.
At first curiously intriguing, The Man with Nine Lives eventually becomes so silly that it's hard to take much of it -- if any of it -- seriously.
The last 15 minutes, in which people finally start dying and Karloff finally gets really menacing, can't make up for the rest...
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