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The Man Who Could Cheat Death

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Plot
Cast
Production and reception
References
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External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2014}}{{Use British English|date=October 2014}}{{Infobox film
| name = The Man Who Could Cheat Death
| image = ManWhoCouldCheatDeathPoster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Terence Fisher
| producer = Michael Carreras
Anthony Nelson-Keys
| screenplay = Jimmy Sangster
| based on = The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon
| starring = Anton Diffring
Hazel Court
Christopher Lee
| music = Richard Bennett
| cinematography = Jack Asher
| editing = John Dunsford
| studio = Hammer Film Productions
| distributor = Paramount British Pictures (UK)
Paramount Pictures (US)
| released = {{fim date|df=y|1959|11|30}}
| runtime = 83 min.
| country = England
| language = English
| budget = GBP £84,000
}}

The Man Who Could Cheat Death is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Anton Diffring and Christopher Lee. Jimmy Sangster adapted the screenplay from the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon, which had been previously filmed in 1945. The Man Who Could Cheat Death was produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions. It was released on 30 November 1959.

Plot

In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet (Diffring) is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly committing murder and using his victims’ parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss (Arnold Marlé) to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard (Lee) into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois (Hazel Court), a young lady in whom both Bonnet and Gerard are romantically interested.

Cast

Anton Diffring as Dr. Georges Bonnet
Hazel Court as Janine Dubois
Christopher Lee as Dr. Pierre Gerard
Arnold Marlé as Prof. Ludwig Weiss
Delphi Lawrence as Margo Phillipe
Francis de Wolff as Insp. LeGris
Gerda Larsen as Street Girl
Ronald Adam as Doctor
Marie Burke as Woman at Private View

Production and reception

The film was made on a budget of £84,000.{{sfn|Hallenbeck|2011|p=104}} The lead role was originally offered to Peter Cushing, who turned it down only a few days before shooting started on 17 November 1958. The European release of the film featured a scene in which Hazel Court appeared topless.{{sfn|Hallenbeck|2011|p=104}}

The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films called the film an "odd mish-mash of mad scientist sci-fi flick and gothic flannel" that "suffers from an excess of dialogue and a lack of action."{{sfn|Hearn|Barnes|2007|p=41}}

References

Sources

{{cite book |last=Hallenbeck |first=Bruce G. |title=British Cult Cinema: Hammer Fantasy and Sci-Fi |publisher=Hemlock Books |year=2011 |ref=harv}}
{{cite book |last1=Hearn |first1=Marcus |last2=Barnes |first2=Alan |title=The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films |chapter=The Man Who Could Cheat Death |publisher=Titan Books |date=September 2007 |edition=limited |ref=harv |isbn=1 84576 185 5}}

External links

{{IMDb title|0053041}}
{{tcmdb title|82724}}

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