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Writers:
Vy Russell (original screenplay) and
Sue Dwiggins (original screenplay)
Release Date:
25 March 1956 (USA) more
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300,000 Volts of Horror! more
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Scientific experiments accidentally revive an executed criminal and make him impervious to harm, prompting him to seek revenge on his former partners. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Lon Chaney Jr. | ... | Charles 'Butcher' Benton (as Lon Chaney) |
 | Max Showalter | ... | Police Lt. Richard 'Dick' Chasen (as Casey Adams) |
| Marian Carr | ... | Eva Martin (as Marion Carr) |
| Ross Elliott | ... | Paul Lowe, Attorney |
| Stuart Randall | ... | Police Lt. John Lauder |
| Ken Terrell | ... | Joe Marcelli (as Kenneth Terrell) |
| Marjorie Stapp | ... | Hysterical young woman |
| Robert Shayne | ... | Prof. Bradshaw |
| Peggy Maley | ... | Francine (blonde stripper) |
| Robert Foulk | ... | Harry (bar owner) |
| Rita Green | ... | Carney's 'bait' |
| Roy Engel | ... | Desk sergeant (as Roy Engle) |
| Madge Cleveland | ... | Old frump in bar |
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70 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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3rd Street Tunnel Stairway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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Lt. Chasen mentions putting in a call to a Professor Dwiggins at Caltech who may know about Professor Bradshaw's work. Sue Dwiggins is the real name of co-writer Sue Bradford. more
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Continuity: When Butcher is walking around his hair is combed, parted and neat but in a close-up of his face his hair is very messy. more
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Paul Lowe, Attorney:
Well that's it, Butcher. The evidence against you is so strong, the governor turned down your appeal.
Charles 'Butcher' Benton:
You're a rotten liar, Lowe. You started railroading me from the beginning of the trial. And now you're still trying to throw me curves.
Paul Lowe, Attorney:
Look, I don't blame you for being edgy but get this straight. I didn't doublecross you. I never worked harder for a client.
Charles 'Butcher' Benton:
You mean you never worked harder for a client to get him sentenced.
Paul Lowe, Attorney:
You're a fool, Butcher. If you hadn't tried to doublecross Squeamy Ellis and Joe Marcelli, they wouldn't have turned state's evidence against you. But you had to get greedy, you wanted to keep the whole $600,000 for yourself. And the boys got sore and I don't blame them.
Charles 'Butcher' Benton:
It was all your idea. You planned the whole job. You hired us. When you found out I stashed the money you figured it was time for me to die. You got those two crumbs to turn state's evidence on me. You stinkin' rotten mouthpiece.
Paul Lowe, Attorney:
We both know that isn't true, Butcher. Now look what's the sense in not giving me the money? It's not going to do you any good.
Charles 'Butcher' Benton:
Well. I'll have the satisfaction of knowing that none of you three crumbs are going to spend it.
Paul Lowe, Attorney:
What about Eva? Don't you owe her something? You tell me where the money is, I'll see that she gets your share.
Charles 'Butcher' Benton:
I've got a different idea. I'm gonna kill you and Squeamy and Joe. Then I'll take care of Eva myself.
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Lon Chaney's face will remind you of jello as too many close-ups of Chaney's face dominate this cheesy, very low budget film.
Chaney is Butcher Benton a penny ante criminal who's been set-up by his lawyer and gangster pals. But he doesn't die in the electrical chair, or by lethal injection either. He just gets mad.
He wants revenge on the lawyer and gangster pals who set him up to take the fall.
The film is done in dragnet documentary style which adds to the campiness of the whole affair considerably. The on-location filming is particularly interesting. It's of Los Angeles' long defunct Angel's Flight area--just prior to it being a victim of urban renewal. L.A. once had cable cars and you'll see them here.
If you're in the mood, you'll have a great time with this low budget, campy, film.