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The Man Who Could Cheat Death is a British film of genre Drama directed by Terence Fisher released in USA on 15 june 1959 with Anton Diffring
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
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Add to a movie listThe 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.
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In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet (Diffring) is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly murdering women and using their 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.Actors
Anton Diffring
(Dr. Georges Bonner)
Hazel Court
(Janine Dubois)
Christopher Lee
(Dr. Pierre Gerrard)
Delphi Lawrence
(Margo Phillipe)
Francis De Wolff
(Insp. LeGris)
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