Indestructible Man (1956)

Please don't spend money on this.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Worth watching, I do not understand the low ratings. I watch about 10 movies a day and this one I enjoyed. Good filming good actors.

Very low budget B picture with Lon Chaney Jr. Filmed not so much like a horror film, but as a film noir with a twist.It's actually a decent story and is rather well played out, considering the budget.Chaney over acts and does some crazy mugging and sometimes the closeups don't match up.It's almost like an ED direction.Still, it's easy to forgive because you can get into the story.Here's the plot"Butcher" Benton goes to his death in the state prison, cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up; "Squeamy" Ellis, Joe Marcelli and Paul Lowe, his attorney and leader of the gang. He vows to return and kill them and dies without revealing the location of the stolen money. Detective Chasen is determined to keep working on the case until the stolen loot is recovered. Benton's body is taken to Professor Bradshaw and his assistant for experimentation, and they manage to restore him to life, making him practically indestructible in the process. He takes off after the three men, getting rid of everybody who stands in his way. He is impervious to police bullets. He kills Ellis and Marcelli, while Lowe seeks police protection. Benton takes to the sewers to recover the hidden loot and the police are powerless to stop him.

Jack pollexfen directed this fantastic story in 1956. Seen for the first time in 1965, this movie was indelibly etched into my memory and has remained there ever since. That it bore the imprint of one of Hollywood's most memorable actors, namely that of Lon Chaney Jr. added to the mystic. This movie tells the story of a man whom the authorities call 'The Butcher' (Lon Chaney Jr.) who is scheduled to be executed at the State Prison without revealing where the stolen loot is hidden. Vowing to get revenge on the Co-conspirators of the crime, he finds to his astonishment, he has survived his execution, he set out to get revenge on those who betrayed him. The film is in Black and White and much of the dialog is as poor as are the cast members, but even so, it lay down a foundation of interest which has survived as a Horror Classic. Max Showalter plays Lt. Richard Chasen and holds his own throughout the movie. Other actors include Robert Foulk and Joe Flynn. Viewed in retrospect as a low budget movie it has weathered well over the years as one of Lon Chaney's classic. Recommended to his memory. ****

A criminal is left to take all the blame for an armed robbery. His cohorts leave him in the lurch and he is subsequently sent to the electric chair. Before this he swears that he will have vengeance. Well, luckily for him his dead body winds up in a scientists lab where an experimental procedure brings his corpse back to life. He is now The Indestructible Man!This is in many ways an Americanized version of Frankenstein. Although in film terms it is quite unusual in that it merges several genres equally - science fiction and horror were regularly combined in the 50's but it is very rare for them to be also combined with a hard-boiled police procedural narrative. And that is essentially the most notable thing about this movie. Although maybe that's the problem as it isn't really one thing nor another. By spreading itself thin it doesn't really make much of an impact anywhere. Still, it's not terrible and it does have one or two amusing moments.