April 18, 2024

This Day in Halloween: Mad doctor horror film "The Man With Nine Lives" -- starring Boris Karloff -- opens across the U.S. in 1940. / Illustration by Cheyenne Knehans

The Man With Nine Lives opens across the U.S. in 1940. An under seen Boris Karloff film, part of a four-film “mad doctor” series of B-movies for Columbia, and one of the two based on a true story of a California doctor who claimed to resurrect his dog. 

 

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