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The Indestructible Man (1956) Lon Chaney, Jr- Man Mad Monster Sci-fi Full Movie

Indestructible Man (1956) is an American black-and-white science fiction film, an original screenplay by Vy Russell and Sue Dwiggins for producer-director Jack Pollexfen and starring Lon Chaney, Jr.. It was produced independently, and picked up after completion for distribution in the United States by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. It is somewhat of a remake of Chaney's 1941 film, Man Made Monster and owes much to Frankenstein. It was later featured in the fourth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, alongside chapter two of the Ray "Crash" Corrigan Undersea Kingdom serial. Told in flashback by police dectective Dick Chasen (Showalter), the movie concerns a 72-hour period of horror for the main characters. Charles "Butcher" Benton (Chaney) was a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer who was executed in the gas chamber. His body is unlawfully sold to aa lone-wolf cancer researcher (Robert Shayne, moonlighting from the Inspector Henderson character featured in the Superman TV series of the time), who plans to move his testing to human subjects. The corpse is subjected to chemical injection and massive jolts of high-frequency electricity in order to study the effect on human tissues. But Benton's heart is restimulated and he completely revives (though rendered mute due to electrical damage to his vocal cords), immensely strong and with skin virtually impervious--even to bazooka shells. After killing the doctor and his assistant (Joe Flynn, pre-McHale's Navy ...

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