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This instruct of THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES (1940) is another in what looks like it might be a DVD series of the anxiety films Karloff made for Columbia. For fans of the actor, it’s more than welcome. Karloff gets to play a couple of nicely chilling scenes, which he does very well, and his Dr. Kravaal is the saving grace in what would otherwise be objective another B programmer. He’s the only actual standout in the cast, but the general level of acting is above average. As Dr. Kravaal’s foils, Roger Pryor and Jo Ann Sayers are convincing and sympathetic. The often-seen character actor Byron Foulger has some nicely intense moments as one of Kravaal’s victims, and there is Bruce Bennett as policeman in the film’s climax. It’s a magnificent example of a honorable B picture: concise and never dumb. Director Grinde creates a sense of doom and foreboding as Pryor and Sayers commence their breeze in search of Dr. Kravaal’s documents, which leads to a variation on the disquieted house motif. The main piece of the film has an effectively creepy atmosphere, without being exactly horrific. Karloff and the rest command for 74 minutes that should not disappoint.
The Columbia Tristar DVD has a very safe looking transfer, and the film appears to be uncut. Up until the final 10 minutes, the image is as certain and arresting as we could seek information from. For some reason, the final minutes do ogle more dilapidated, but it’s not really a predicament.
The disc has only trailers of modern films as a supplement. The most graceful feature of the DVD is the main menu page, and the scene selection menu, which both have a radiant sepia-toned leer. This is fully the equal of Columbia’s previous DVD of THE DEVIL COMMANDS, and it’s a lot less expensive.
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Highly recommended.
I recently purchased the “Icons of Anxiety – Boris Karloff Collection” featuring his Columbia films of the 30s and 40s. That place contained four films. Two of his Columbia alarm titles were missing, “The Devil Commands” and “The Man with Nine Lives,” because Sony had previously released them separately. I decided to engage the separate DVD releases. I am really overjoyed I did as this film, “The Man with Nine Lives,” was a stout surprise.
After seeing Karloff recently in a lot of angry scientist roles that all seemed to be similar, I wasn’t too determined about watching him in yet another angry scientist flick. Would he be on death row again? Would he be a widower and have the obligatory 18-25 year-old daughter? Would he be seeking vengeance against those who scorned him? Wow, imagine my surprise to sight him in a very different enraged scientist role.
“The Man with Nine Lives” has Karloff as a misunderstood genius who has perfected a device of using cryogenics (a term that is never actually weak in the film) to cure disease in the human body. You don’t even discover Karloff for the first 10-15 minutes of the film. His eventual appearance is dramatically built up as a cryogenics research doctor and his nurse/fiancee search for answers to the mysterious disappearance of Karloff’s character and five other people 10 years earlier. When his character is finally revealed it answers quite a few questions and sets the next chapter of the film into motion (I don’t want to roar too remarkable here) .
What I loved about this film was the arrangement it weaved in profound questions about scientific ethics (anyone who has seen it will understand what I mean) in a contrivance no other Karloff indignant scientist film ever has. Is it just to experiment on unwilling human guinea pigs even if the knowledge gained could do millions? In other words, does the ruin account for the means? That’s the large request in this film.
As a viewer I simultaneously felt sympathy for and apprehension toward Karloff’s character in considerable the same diagram the other lead character, Tim Morgan (Roger Pryor), does. I can understand Karloff’s frustration and inflame as people he perceives as simple-minded continuously thwart his quest for the discovery of a medical breakthrough. Of course, his unorthodox arrive to achieving his goals and his almost divine self-justification are a bit shocking.
Just a few years after this film was made a doctor named Josef Mengele was experimenting with unwilling human guinea pigs in Nazi Germany. Although Mengele was a noteworthy more horrific real-life example of unchecked medical research gone wild, one can imagine Karloff’s character going in that direction given the chance.
This is a really qualified film. Highly recommended to all Karloff fans.
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