The Man Who Could Cheat Death
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| Directed by | Terence Fisher |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras Anthony Nelson Keys |
| Written by | Barré Lyndon(play) Jimmy Sangster (screenplay) |
| Starring | Anton Diffring Christopher Lee |
| Music by | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| Cinematography | Jack Asher |
| Editing by | John Dunsford |
| Distributed by | Hammer Horror Productions |
| Release date(s) | 30 November 1959  United Kingdom |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death is a 1959 Hammer Film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Anton Diffring and Christopher Lee. It was based on the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon which had been previously filmed in 1945.
[edit] Plot overview
Anton Diffring stars as a century-old artist who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly replacing certain glands — in transplants that he receives thanks to the unwilling participation of healthy donors. Despite his outward physical vitality, his advanced years lead to an increasing mental instability, evinced by his mad obsession with an old flame (Hazel Court) whose newfound love for a suave doctor (Christopher Lee) compels Diffring to commit acts of diabolical cruelty that ultimately become his grisly undoing.
[edit] Cast
- Anton Diffring ... Dr. Georges Bonnet
- Hazel Court ... Janine Dubois
- Christopher Lee ... Dr. Pierre Gerard
- Arnold Marlé ... Prof. Ludwig Weiss
- Delphi Lawrence ... Margo Phillipe
- Francis De Wolff ... Insp. LeGris
- Gerda Larsen ... Street Girl
- Ronald Adam... Doctor
- Marie Burke ... Woman At Private View
- John Harrison ... Servant
- Ian Hewitson ... Roget
- Charles Lloyd Pack ... Man At Private View
- Frederick Rawlings ... Footman
- Michael Ripper ... Morgue Attendant
- Denis Shaw ... Tavern Customer
- Barry Shawzin ... Doctor
- Lockwood West ... First Doctor
- Middleton Woods ... Little Man
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