The Man with Nine Lives | |
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Directed by | Nick Grinde |
Screenplay by | Karl Brown |
Story by | Harold Shumate |
Starring | Boris Karloff |
Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline (as Benjamin Kline) |
Edited by | Al Clark |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Man with Nine Lives is a 1940 American horror science fiction film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Boris Karloff.[1]
Both The Man with Nine Lives and The Man They Could Not Hang were based in part on the real-life saga of Dr. Robert Cornish, a University of California professor who, in 1934, announced that he had restored life to a dog named Lazarus, which he had put to death by clinical means. The resulting publicity (including a Time magazine article and motion picture footage of the allegedly re-animated canine) led to Cornish being booted off campus.[2]