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A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.
Arnold Marlé
- Dr. Ludwig Weiss
- (as Arnold Marle)
Ronald Adam
- Second Doctor
- (uncredited)
Marie Burke
- Woman At Private View
- (uncredited)
Renee Cunliffe
- Tavern Customer
- (uncredited)
John Harrison
- Servant
- (uncredited)
Ian Hewitson
- Roget
- (uncredited)
Gerda Larsen
- Street Girl
- (uncredited)
Charles Lloyd Pack
- Man At Private View
- (uncredited)
Louis Matto
- Tavern Customer
- (uncredited)
Frederick Rawlings
- Footman
- (uncredited)
Michael Ripper
- Morgue Attendant
- (uncredited)
Denis Shaw
- Tavern Customer
- (uncredited)
Barry Shawzin
- Third Doctor
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaHazel Court played the Anton Diffring sculpting scene topless. Only her bare back is shown in the British and U.S. versions, but her breasts are visible in the scene shot for European versions. It was one of the first nude scenes of its kind to be shot in England. They cleared the set and had just a skeleton crew. She said she agreed to do it because the scene warranted the nudity and it was shot beautifully. If had been gratuitous, she'd have refused.
- GoofsChristopher Lee's hairline raises and lowers from scene to scene.
- Quotes
Janine Du Bois: [about the disappearance of Margo] But that's terrible. What could have happened?
Inspector Legris: Quite a number of things could have happened, Man'selle, and it's up to me to find out the one that did.
- Alternate versionsThe "European" print of the film includes scenes of a topless Hazel Court.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1966)
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Diffring Is Chilling
"The Man Who Could Cheat Death" is a well-put-together Hammer film from 1959 that boasts a dream cast of horror veterans, an intelligent script and high production values. Still, I can almost predict what the film's inevitable detractors will say: that it is overly talky and builds to a climax that is something of a letdown. And while these charges do have a patina of truth to them, the picture's sterling acting from its three leads more than makes up for any deficits. In the picture we meet Georges Bonnet, a doctor in the Paris of 1890, played by German actor Anton Diffring (who had so impressed me recently in his next starring role, in the following year's "Circus of Horrors"). Though seemingly blessed with all that life can offer--including a lucrative practice and the love of society lady Janine Dubois, played by the luscious Hazel Court--in truth, Bonnet is a desperate man. Unless he can coerce surgeon Pierre Gerard (the always dependable Christopher Lee) to operate on him, and take the place of his ailing friend, Dr. Weiss, the life-preserving serum that has been keeping him alive for--HOW long?!?!--will very shortly lose its mojo. In the role of the aged Dr. Weiss, Arnold Marle almost steals the show as Bonnet's patient but increasingly appalled voice of morality and reason, and his terrific thesping is more than adequately matched by those three horror icons. Yes, the film IS talky, but never dull, and Diffring brings a chilling intensity to his role and really makes us feel the angst, isolation and desperate strait of his unique situation. And yes, though the picture ends a tad abruptly and with something of a disappointment in the makeup department, most fans of restrained, levelheaded and intelligent British horror should, I feel, be left happily grinning. In all, another winner from the great House of Hammer.
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- Covjek koji je prevario smrt
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- £84,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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By what name was The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) officially released in India in English?
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