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Indestructible Man
A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.
Release : | 1956 |
Rating : | 4.4 |
Studio : | Allied Artists Pictures, C.G.K. Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Lon Chaney Jr. Max Showalter Marian Carr Ross Elliott Stuart Randall |
Genre : | Horror Crime Science Fiction |
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Just perfect...
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Worth watching, I do not understand the low ratings. I watch about 10 movies a day and this one I enjoyed. Good filming good actors.
A man on death row vows revenge on the men who have set him up and vows vengeance from beyond the grave. Fortunately after he is executed a scientist obtains his corpse (somehow) and pumps him full of electricity and he comes back to life to wreak his avowed mission of death as the Indestructible Man. So he kills some people before being fried in a power plant after dodging the police and being shot a lot of times. The Indestructible Man is played by Lon Chaney Jnr. who I would like to say gives an electric performance but no, he is rather flat, lumbering around and throwing his victims off high places.One of those places is the much filmed Bradbury Building in Los Angeles. The location shooting around Los Angeles is probably the best thing about the film as otherwise the story, acting and direction are mundane. After being revived Lon has no dialogue as his vocal chords have been zapped during the process (!) which doesn't matter as from the start of the film the story is related (in hilarious detail) continually in voice-over by Lt. Dick Chasen of the police force.Marian Carr is very cute and mention must go to Marjorie Stapp who plays 'Hysterical Young Woman' and Madge Cleveland who plays 'Screaming Woman.' Indeed the film is billed as "The scream that shocks the screen with 300,000 volts of horror! Inhuman! Invincible! Inescapable!" That's incorrect,
I don't know if the original script was written with Lon Chaney Jr. talking throughout the entire story but there were slight changes made before the movie. Despite Lon's addition to alcohol he was constantly raising awareness to the deaf community in and around Los Angeles. Lon must have felt that playing a mute in this movie would make the picture more enjoyable to the hearing impaired public. Facial gestures and physical emotions Lon learned from his Father a generation ago were incorporated into this science fiction /revenge thriller. Despite the sappy acting of Max Showalter(Casey Adams),the story had a constant flow which kept you interested in the outcome of the Butcher's revenge on his crooked partners.Lon Chaney's performance makes you empathize with his predicament without the spoken word. An alternative style chosen by Chaney Jr. which I'm sure would make his Father proud.
Another B movie, another mad scientist tampering in God's domain. This one gets hold of the recently executed body of a vicious killer named Butcher Benton (Lon Chaney Jr) and brings him back from the dead. The resurrection process also makes Benton indestructible - but I guess you have to expect that kind of thing when you're tampering in God's domain.Benton has a score to settle with the thugs who helped put him on Death Row, so he sets off to get revenge and to collect a cache of stolen loot hidden in the LA sewers. Meanwhile a detective is closing in, helped by Benton's former girlfriend.Aside from some dull romantic interludes between the cop and the girlfriend, the film moves along at a decent pace, helped by some good location work around LA and an effective, even sympathetic, performance from Chaney. As in his best known role as The Wolf Man, you get a real sense of the pain that his transformation has caused him.Oddly, the film could probably have worked as well or even better without the sci-fi elements. If Benton had simply escaped from prison - without being resurrected, without being made indestructible - the core plot of a desperate man hunting down the rats who double-crossed him would still be there, and would locate the movie firmly in film noir country.