Man Who Could Cheat Death, The

The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Credits
Title:	The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Directed by:	Terence Fisher
Written by:	Jimmy Sangster
Produced by:	Michael Carreras; Anthony Nelson Keys
Music by:	Richard Rodney Bennett
Cinematography:	Jack Asher
Edited by:	John Dunsford
Production
Distributors:	Hammer Film Productions
Released:	June, 1959
Rating:	Approved
Running time:	83 min.
Country:	UK
Language:	English
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death is a British feature film of the science fiction and psycho-thriller genres. It was directed by Terence Fisher with a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster based on the play by Barre Lyndon. It was produced by Hammer Film Productions and premiered in the United Kingdom in June, 1959.

Cast

Actor	Role
Anton Diffring	Doctor Georges Bonnet
Hazel Court	Janine Du Bois
Christopher Lee	Doctor Pierre Gerrard
Arnold Marle	Doctor Ludwig Philippe
Delphi Lawrence	Margo Philippe
Francis De Wolff	Inspector Legris

Notes & Trivia

• The tagline for this film is "His hideous obsession led him to commit ghastly crimes of passion and violence".

• The Man Who Could Cheat Death, The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), Man Who Could Cheat Death and Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) all redirect to this page.

• This movie is a partial remake of The Man in Half Moon Street by director Ralph Murphy, released in 1945.

• There are a total of six credited cast members in this film.

• The central setting of this film is Paris, France in the year 1890.

Recommendations

• A Bucket of Blood
• Corridors of Blood
• Devil Doll
• Incredible Invasion, The
• Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Premature Burial

External Links

• The Man Who Could Cheat Death at IMDB
• The Man Who Could Cheat Death at Wikipedia
• The Man Who Could Cheat Death at Letterboxd.com
• The Man Who Could Cheat Death at Themoviedb.org

References

1890 | 19th century | Burn victims | Female partial nudity | France | Immolation | Immortality | Laboratory | Morgue | Paris | Prolonged lifespan | Prostitute | Scientific experimentation | Smoking | Strangulation

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