Monday, December 27, 2010

Dec 27th
The Man Who Could Cheat Death*
GB 1959. Paramount/Hammer. 83m.

A doctor who has experimented with immortality for 104 years becomes increasingly desperate and murderous.
Melodramatic Hammer horror with some talky phases and spirited performances.

Written by: Jimmy Sangster, from the play "The Man in Half Moon Street" by Barre Lyndon.
Producer: Anthony Nelson-Keys.
Director: Terence Fisher.
Starring: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence, Francis de Wolff.
Photography: Jack Asher.
Music: Richard Rodney Bennett.

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