The Man with Nine Lives (film)
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| Directed by | Nick Grinde |
| Screenplay by | Karl Brown |
| Story by | Harold Shumate |
| Starring | Boris Karloff |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline (as Benjamin Kline) |
| Edited by | Al Clark |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Man with Nine Lives is a 1940 American horror science fiction film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Boris Karloff.
Both The Man with Nine Lives and The Man They Could Not Hang were based in part on the real-life saga of Dr. Robert Cornish, a University of California professor who, in 1934, announced that he had restored life to a dog named Lazarus, which he had put to death by clinical means. The resulting publicity (including a Time magazine article and motion picture footage of the allegedly re-animated canine) led to Cornish being booted off campus.