I guess that Harry Cohn at Columbia must have liked what Jack Warner did with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead. A few years later Boris was over at Columbia doing The Man They Could Not Hang with the same resurrection type film theme.
Karloff is once again a misunderstood scientist experimenting just as he was experimented on in Frankenstein. Only Karloff was a corpse dug up for Colin Clive's experiment. In this film he's the scientist and he kills one of his students to bring him back. Only it doesn't work and he's up for murder in a state where they hang one.
Karloff was also resurrected in The Walking Dead and was exacting revenge on folks who did him wrong. Same here it's the 12 jurors, the judge, the DA, and the faithless girlfriend of his experiment subject Ann Doran. Only his daughter Lorna Gray stands by Karloff and she's having trouble grasping what's going on.
Although Karloff is both terrifying and pitiable as he is in some of his greatest horror roles. I liked The Walking Dead far better than this one. Karloff fans should approve though.
Karloff is once again a misunderstood scientist experimenting just as he was experimented on in Frankenstein. Only Karloff was a corpse dug up for Colin Clive's experiment. In this film he's the scientist and he kills one of his students to bring him back. Only it doesn't work and he's up for murder in a state where they hang one.
Karloff was also resurrected in The Walking Dead and was exacting revenge on folks who did him wrong. Same here it's the 12 jurors, the judge, the DA, and the faithless girlfriend of his experiment subject Ann Doran. Only his daughter Lorna Gray stands by Karloff and she's having trouble grasping what's going on.
Although Karloff is both terrifying and pitiable as he is in some of his greatest horror roles. I liked The Walking Dead far better than this one. Karloff fans should approve though.