This article is about the 1939 American film. For other uses, see The Man They Could Not Hang (disambiguation).
The Man They Could Not Hang
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Nick Grinde
(as Nick Grindé)
Screenplay by
Karl Brown
Story by
Leslie T. White
George Wallace Sayre
Starring
Boris Karloff
Lorna Gray
Robert Wilcox
Roger Pryor
Don Beddoe
Ann Doran
Cinematography
Benjamin H. Kline
(as Benjamin Kline)
Edited by
William A. Lyon
(as William Lyon)
Production company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date
August 17, 1939 (1939-08-17)
Running time
64 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1939 American horror film directed by Nick Grinde from a screenplay by Karl Brown. It stars Boris Karloff as Dr. Henryk Savaard,[1][2] a scientist who develops a procedure for bringing the dead back to life. When he is arrested and sentenced to be executed for murdering a young medical student who volunteered to be killed to test the procedure, Savaard vows retribution on the individuals responsible. Alongside Karloff, the film's cast includes Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, and Roger Pryor.
The Man They Could Not Hang is the first in a series of four similarly-themed but otherwise unrelated horror films produced by Columbia Pictures, all starring Karloff, informally known as the "Mad Doctor Cycle." It was followed by The Man with Nine Lives, Before I Hang (both 1940),[3] and The Devil Commands (1941). A fifth, The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942), was a parody of the others.
^Stephen Jacobs, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomahawk Press 2011 pp. 246-247
^"The Man They Could Not Hang". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
^Kay 2008, p. 12.
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