The Man with Nine Lives (film)

The Man with Nine Lives is a 1940 film about a medical researcher who visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.
 * ''Directed by Nick Grinde. Written by Harold Shumate.

He kills in the name of science...Tombs of ice for the living...Chambers of horror for the dead! (taglines)

Dr. Leon Kravaal

 * It's yesterday afternoon to me, but to you it's ten years ago!
 * No other doctor has ever been able to grasp the basic principles of what I am doing. I've explained it to the highest authorities in medicine, and they scoffed at it, calling me insane! I must furnish them a living proof!

Dr. Tim Mason

 * Metabolism at this time is practically nil!
 * There's no use kidding ourselves - we're in a spot.

Dialogue

 * Dr. Tim Mason: [after Kravaal has shot Adams in the back] He's dead!
 * Dist. Atty. John Hawthorne: Murdered!
 * Dr. Leon Kravaal: [bitterly] You call everything murder, don't you?


 * Dist. Atty. John Hawthorne: There must be some way out of this!
 * Dr. Henry Bassett: What, for instance? We're locked in, no one knows we're here, and we have a madman for a jailer!

Taglines

 * He kills in the name of science...Tombs of ice for the living...Chambers of horror for the dead!
 * Resurrected from a tomb of ice!

Cast

 * Boris Karloff — Dr. Leon Kravaal
 * Roger Pryor — Dr. Tim Mason
 * Jo Ann Sayers — Judith Blair
 * Stanley Brown — Bob Adams