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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 15 2012, 09:46 PM Post #1 |
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![]() The Man with Two Lives (1942) Dir. Phil Rosen ITB Shock Theatre #075 Interesting, minor horror-melodrama from Monogram; if this thing had Karloff or Lugosi in it, it'd be considered one of the better such titles the studio turned out, I'll bet. Edward Keane has discovered a way to bring dead animals back to life (using, and get this, the famous Strickfadden equipment from the Frankenstein pictures; an in-joke or they just wanted a lot of things that lit up, sparked, and spun?). When handsome, friendly young family friend Edward Norris is killed in a sudden car crash, Dr. Keane revives him - at the exact moment that a vicious killer is being executed at the State Pen. Before you know it, Norris is smokin', carryin' a gat, slappin' around his girlfriend, Eleanore Lawson, and humpin' the dead convict's moll, Helen Lengel. He even takes over the deceased's gang (which includes Anthony Warde, Ernie Adams, and Kenne Duncan, obviously all on their way to Republic when they decided to go bad). Million-dollar Dialog: Ernie, when Norris declares he's takin' over the mob: "How do we know you're not a DICK?!?" This is actually a violent, rather ugly film (lots of people, including a nice, old cop, get shot point-blank by young Mr. Norris). The studio did its best to wrap up the story in a way that'll please everybody. Didn't work. Pretty good for a Monogram. Wish it'd had a better cast; where's George Zucco when you need him? And check out that poster. Funny, Universal made the same movie (Black Friday) and sold it as a horror film, while Monogram sold this as... uh... something or other. |
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