When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.
Boris Karloff will always be synonymous with Frankenstein's monster, but he was capable of being just as fiendish without the makeup. Here he plays a doctor who is wronged by a legal system, only to take his revenge in an even more cruel manner.
The film has become a bit prescient in its portrayal of surgery, although the actual machines used for heart surgery is likely nothing close to what they were using here.
Boris Karloff will always be synonymous with Frankenstein's monster, but he was capable of being just as fiendish without the makeup. Here he plays a doctor who is wronged by a legal system, only to take his revenge in an even more cruel manner.
The film has become a bit prescient in its portrayal of surgery, although the actual machines used for heart surgery is likely nothing close to what they were using here.