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Before I Hang

  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 2 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,1/10
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Boris Karloff, Bruce Bennett, and Evelyn Keyes in Before I Hang (1940)
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HorrorKriminalitätScience-Fiction

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jek... Alles lesenA physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.

  • Regie
    • Nick Grinde
  • Drehbuch
    • Robert Hardy Andrews
    • Karl Brown
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Boris Karloff
    • Evelyn Keyes
    • Bruce Bennett
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    6,1/10
    1550
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    • Regie
      • Nick Grinde
    • Drehbuch
      • Robert Hardy Andrews
      • Karl Brown
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Boris Karloff
      • Evelyn Keyes
      • Bruce Bennett
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    Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    • Dr. John Garth
    Evelyn Keyes
    Evelyn Keyes
    • Martha Garth
    Bruce Bennett
    Bruce Bennett
    • Dr. Paul Ames
    Edward Van Sloan
    Edward Van Sloan
    • Dr. Ralph Howard
    Ben Taggart
    Ben Taggart
    • Warden Thompson
    Pedro de Cordoba
    Pedro de Cordoba
    • Victor Sondini
    Wright Kramer
    • George Wharton
    Bertram Marburgh
    Bertram Marburgh
    • Stephen Barclay
    Don Beddoe
    Don Beddoe
    • Police Capt. McGraw
    Robert Fiske
    Robert Fiske
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    Kenneth MacDonald
    Kenneth MacDonald
    • Anson, Prison Guard
    Frank Richards
    Frank Richards
    • Otto Kron
    Ernie Adams
    Ernie Adams
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    Edward Earle
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    • Dr. Nichols
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    Richard Fiske
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      • Karl Brown
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    oyason

    Blood will have blood.

    BEFORE I HANG is an intriguing little chunk of B-Film that explores the old idea that blood has memory, that the tissues and bones of the criminally insane pulse with a life that makes them who they are. In short, blood will have blood, as Macbeth says after the appearance of Banquo's ghost.

    Boris Karloff is strong in this piece about a Dr. John Garth, who is seeking a serum that may alleviate the ravages of age. His experiments have led him to "mercy kill" one of the subjects of his studies, and for this, he is sentenced to death. Offered a chance to redeem himself through medical research in prison, he and a colleague (played by the fine character actor Edward Van Sloan) inoculate Garth with an experimental serum drawn from the veins of an executed murderer. The serum works, but Garth becomes a homicidal maniac. He kills his colleague and a prison trustee, and manages to lie his way into a pardon from the state for his humanitarian efforts. After he gets out, he really has a killer's jamboree.

    Aside from the mechanical gesture of touching his hand to the back of his neck whenever one of the murderous fits come on, Karloff creates a character who's pretty sympathetic. Evelyn Keyes as his daughter adds some spark to the melodramatic proceedings. Pedro de Cordoba, piano interludes and all, managed to build a soulful and arresting character who stands out all the more against the general flatness of the Columbia "B" company. All in all, the work holds up, and it's a must see for anyone who admires the efforts of Karloff and some of the other great characters of that era who (time and again) were able to lend some real spark to what would otherwise have been pretty lifeless strips of celluloid.
    6utgard14

    I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

    Dr. John Garth (Boris Karloff) is convicted of a mercy killing and sentenced to hang. With the time he has left, he is allowed to continue his experiments in prison. He creates a serum that reverses aging and tries it out on himself. But side effects of the serum turn him into a homicidal maniac. Karloff is terrific in a role very similar to many others he had played before and always perfectly. He was so good at creating sympathetic performances out of characters that other actors would have played in broad strokes. Nice supporting cast that includes the always good Edward Van Sloan, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, Don Beddoe, and the underrated Pedro de Cordoba. You might not recognize some of those names but it's a solid cast for a 'B' picture. Not the best of Karloff's mad scientist films but highly enjoyable anyway. Definitely give it a shot.
    0ldsk00l

    Required Viewing

    I am not exactly a connoisseur of Karloff, but this film makes me want to find out more about the great master--his performance in this was truly endearing, not to mention gripping.

    Furthermore, this movie should be be required viewing for modern film-makers, because it really is a masterpiece of succinctness. Not a single frame of film is wasted! The movie only lasts for 62 minutes (although I'm sure the version I saw, early one morning, lasted a good ten minutes less than that!) and yet it crams more plot into that small timescale than a great many drawn-out 3 hour epics! And yet, the real genius of the work is that it does not for a single moment seem *rushed*. Everything flows smoothly right up to the final curtain, and you are left with the feeling of having watched a "full-length" feature--a truly astonishing achievement! I glanced at my watch at about the halfway stage , not out of impatience, but out of sheer wonder at how on earth everything was going to be wrapped up to a neat conclusion within only 25 minutes or so!

    This film, more than any other that I can recall, bridges the gap between the frenetic single-reeler comedies of the 20s (which crammed a hell of a lot in, at the expense of a more welcome relaxed pace), and the modern day feature. If there really was five full minutes of piano-playing in this, I can't say that it perturbed me in any way whatsoever--it merely helped to set the melancholy mood of the piece. And that five minutes of a one hour film can be dedicated solely to mood setting, without generating any feeling of slow-down, is something really quite remarkable.

    A great genius *can* make a 4 hour film work... but such directors are *extremely* few and far between (e.g. Kurosawa, von Stroheim). All others should learn from the director of this work: the Occam's Razor of feature films.
    7Coventry

    All this bad blood here, won't you let it die?

    Basically "Before I Hang" is very simplistic and inconspicuous thriller story, but it is almost evidently brought to a much higher level solely thanks to the always-reliable performance and natural class of the iconic Boris Karloff. I wrote it before and I'll write it forevermore in my reviews: this man was simply amazing! With is moody voice, he could narrate the content of a phone book for all I care, because I would still hang on his lips. His charm and charisma make every movie atmospheric and his grimaces when he transforms from a seemingly gentle elderly person into a cold-blooded murderer (as masterfully demonstrated a couple of times in "Before I Hang") are utmost petrifying! Mr. Karloff truly was – and still is – horror personified! So, that concludes my ode to this brilliant actor, and on to the film itself. "Before I Hang" is actually another loose interpretation of the classic novel "Les Mains d'Orlac" by Maurice Renard. The novel first got turned into a film in 1924 already, in the German expressionist masterpiece "Orlacs Hände" starring Conrad Veidt, and several more times since, including two films starring Peter Lorre ("Mad Love", "The Beast with Five Fingers") and another one starring Christopher Lee in 1960 ("The Hands of Orlac"). Although the source material isn't specifically credited here, it's clear that Renard's novel also provides the basic plot idea. The movie opens with a beautiful and long Boris Karloff plea in court. He's physician Dr. John Garth, sentenced to death by hanging because he attempted to cure a man but failed. Awaiting his execution, Dr. Garth continues his experiments with the consent of the prison director and the help of the resident doctor, and he uses himself as guinea pig when he injects the serum into his own veins. Dr. Garth's execution gets overruled after all, but he begins to notice that the serum rejuvenates him. Unfortunately, however, he used the blood of a convicted murderer to finalize his serum and this bad blood is now slowly turning him into a merciless strangler as well. Classic Karloff material, in other words, with numerous fantastic monologues and a handful of eerie moments. Short (barely 60 minutes), intense and to the point; where would (mad) science be without Boris Karloff?
    Tranio1

    Karloff Underrated As Usual

    Boris Karloff, typecast in the horror genre, was one of our most underrated film actors. Here is a typical film of his middle career that showcases his versatile skills, equally strong as the benign, elderly scientist and his murderous, strangling younger self. This b-picture packs a lot of atmosphere and suspense into it's hour running time. Any shortcomings cannot be blamed on anyone but the screenwriter, Robert D. Andrews, who was just trying to keep things moving- not such a bad thing, actually. Nick Grinde does an excellent job making the most out of the script and witness Karloff's fireside confession for an example of the film's above average cinematography. It's also nice to see Karloff side by side with Edward Van Sloan again nine years after Frankenstein. If you need proof of Boris Karloff's talent and charisma aside from Frankenstein, check out Before I Hang, as well as The Black Room, The Body Snatcher, and Targets. I wish we had a star like him today...

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      This film was shot in the house later used in the 1945 title Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1945) staring Hurd Hatfield.
    • Patzer
      When speaking to his older friends, Dr. Garth mentions that humanity had only been able to increase life expectancy by maybe 15 years in the past fifty years of modern science. His friends counter that human lifespan is meant to only be 70 years ("three score and ten"). Both statements are incorrect. Life expectancy in the US was more like 60 (men) and 65 (women) in 1940, up from life expectancy around 40 in 1890. However, data was spotty before 1900, and life expectancy in the early 1900s was closer to 50, which may have been more what Dr Garth was referring to, he was just hyperbolic about the time frame.
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      Dr. John Garth: Someday, somehow, medical science will find a way to end the needless, ghastly suffering caused by the ravages of age!

    • Verbindungen
      Featured in TJ and the All Night Theatre: Before I Hang (1979)
    • Soundtracks
      Étude No 12 in C minor, Op 10 'Revolutionary'
      (uncredited)

      Composed by Frédéric Chopin

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 17. September 1940 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • El mago de la muerte
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      • Columbia Pictures
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