L'uomo che non poteva essere impiccato

Titolo originale: The Man They Could Not Hang

1939
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1h 4min

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Boris Karloff and Lorna Gray in L'uomo che non poteva essere impiccato (1939)

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaWhen Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hangi... Leggi tuttoWhen Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

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2067

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Dr. Stoddard
(as Joseph De Stefani)

Charles Trowbridge

Judge Bowman

Byron Foulger

Lang

Dick Curtis

Kearney

James Craig

Watkins

John Tyrrell

Sutton

George Anderson

Prison Warden
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Sam Ash

Druggist
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Sam Bagley

Courtroom Spectator
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Stanley Blystone

Prison Guard
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Harlan Briggs

Defense Attorney Parker
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Stanley Brown

Bob Roberts
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Regia
- Nick Grinde
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On the witness stand, Dr. Savaard claims that one day it will be possible to take a heart from a person, such as someone killed in an automobile accident, and place it into the body of a person in need of a new heart, while skeptics in the courtroom scoff. Twenty-three years later, on December 3, 1967, the first successful human heart transplant occurred at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The patient, Louis Washkansky, received the heart of a young woman tragically killed in an automobile accident.

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After the judge dies, the remaining guests discover the electrified grill because the detective's gun, in a holster on his belt, hits the grill. Later, when the detective pulls his gun, he pulls it from his jacket.

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Dr. Henryk Savaard: Think of it! The Edison or Pasteur of tomorrow need not die merely because his heart is worn out. We'll give him a new heart taken perhaps from the body of a young man who's been killed in a automobile accident. And our great genius is awakened to another sixty years of useful life! You ask me if that's a benefit to mankind? I answer it's the gift of eternal life! But whether man's wise enough or old enouh to receive such a gift, I don't know. I don't know!

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Featured in Classic Nightmares: The Man They Could Not Hang (1959)

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You Have Fifteen Minutes Left To Live...

Karloff plays Dr. Saavard, a scientist involved in creating an artificial heart and hopefully the means to extend life and perhaps realize immortality. A young man offers his services to him, and accidentally dies. Karloff is brought to trial, convicted and hung. He comes back(as we new he would from the name of the title) and seeks revenge on all those responsible for his "death." The story is fairly conventional and routine, but there are some splendid moments in the house of Karloff menacing his "guests" and letting each one know how long he or she has to live. The only real complaint I have deals with the ending which just cuts the tension that had been built up. The ending is rather make-shift and really spoiled the mood earlier created.