SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I guess that Harry Cohn at Columbia must have liked what Jack Warner did with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead. A few years later Boris was over at Columbia doing The Man They Could Not Hang with the same resurrection type film theme.Karloff is once again a misunderstood scientist experimenting just as he was experimented on in Frankenstein. Only Karloff was a corpse dug up for Colin Clive's experiment. In this film he's the scientist and he kills one of his students to bring him back. Only it doesn't work and he's up for murder in a state where they hang one.Karloff was also resurrected in The Walking Dead and was exacting revenge on folks who did him wrong. Same here it's the 12 jurors, the judge, the DA, and the faithless girlfriend of his experiment subject Ann Doran. Only his daughter Lorna Gray stands by Karloff and she's having trouble grasping what's going on.Although Karloff is both terrifying and pitiable as he is in some of his greatest horror roles. I liked The Walking Dead far better than this one. Karloff fans should approve though.

Boris Karloff is a seemingly good doctor who has invented a mechanical heart he hopes to utilize on his nurse's boyfriend in order to alleviate the suffering of mankind. The young man has agreed to be medically put to death in order to be revived with the new heart installed. However, the frantic nurse turns him in, Karloff is arrested and sentenced to death. Members of the jury who voted for his execution, the D.A. and the judge are all invited to Karloff's house by a "mystery" host whom even the servants hired for the evening haven't seen.This is a tale of revenge, and it would really work if Karloff's character had been sent up as a vindictive man who had more interest in achieving immortality through giving to humanity than one who had humanity at the forefront of his motivation. Karloff's sudden rampage against the jury and other members of the court comes out of nowhere, and this gives the impression that there was really no consistency in the writer's idea of who this character was. The film moves at a quick pace and has some clever and macabre ideas to it, culminating in an eerie conclusion which involves Karloff's innocent daughter (Lorna Gray). But had someone pointed out the lack of motivation or twisted reasons for Karloff's demented change in personality then the film might have been a lot better. Director Nick Grinde and Karloff would get together the following year for the similarly titled "Before I Hang" which in retrospect is the better of the two films.

Fascinating! Boris Karloff stars as Dr. Henryk Savaard, whose cutting-edge research is proved by his own death...and rebirth. Weird and exciting for movie goers in the 1939. The scientist is totally obsessed with his research of bringing the dead back to life. A young medical student with faith in the doctor offers himself to be put to death, but before Savaard can bring him back to life...he is arrested and convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. The unappreciated Savaard vows revenge on the judge and jury. The sentence is carried out and an assistant of the now deceased Savaard claims the body and revives him proving the unimaginable technique actually works. A vengeful and justly manic Savaard begins killing his doubters. Other players include: Lorna Gray, Joe De Stefani, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor and Don Beddoe.

The Man They Couldn't Hang: 6 out of 10: The title is a bit of a misnomer after all they do hang him (and break his neck in the process) he just doesn't stay dead. I figure a man they couldn't hang would be morbidly obese or have a thick neck or something.The movie has Karloff as a mad scientist experimenting with his artificial heart gizmo (That is a dead ringer for a modern dialysis machine) and when the experiment goes wrong he is sentenced to death. (Karloff's characters really need better lawyers he is always getting a capital sentence for what is basically accidental manslaughter) The doctor now mad seeks revenge on the jury that convicted him by inviting them to his house and trying to kill them off one by one. The movie really gets good at this point but it ends much too soon. Another half an hour in the house with various traps would have done wonders.Foreshadowing both modern medical technology and House on Haunted Hill, The Man They Couldn't Hang is a good movie with a disappointingly truncated ending.