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List Price: $14.95Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.46 (10%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305436409
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305436401
Label: ROAN
Manufacturer: ROAN
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: ROAN
Release Date: October 26, 1999
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 112637
Studio: ROAN
Theatrical Release Date: March 25, 1956
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The Indestructible Man stars bearish horror movie icon Lon Chaney Jr. as the vicious 'Butcher' Benton, a notorious killer and bank robber on death row who swears to take revenge on his backstabbing lawyer and double-crossing partners. When his corpse is brought back to life in a secret experiment, mute but monstrously strong and impervious to bullets, he's suddenly in a position to carry out his threat and scoop up the loot he hid from his last job. Meanwhile, investigating cop Robert Shayne, who dryly narrates Dragnet style, leads the hunt to catch him before he kills again. The Los Angeles location shooting, including scenes in the underground sewer system and a climactic showdown at a power plant, and Chaney's lumbering, lurching performance (a kind of urban Frankenstein's monster) bring a little character to an otherwise drab thriller.
B movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer directs The Amazing Transparent Man, another science-fiction-tinged crime thriller. In the film's handsomely shot introduction, Douglas Kennedy is sprung from prison to help an ambitious crime lord (James Griffith) with his master plan to take over the world with his new invisibility formula. But tough-talking thug Kennedy is no man's patsy, and the two double-cross each other. The slim 60-minute feature is stuck with a leaden script and silly twists, but the film looks better than it has any right to and Ulmer directs with a brisk pace, ending the picture (thanks to the wonders of stock footage) with an apocalyptic bang! --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Adequate if unremarkable DVD two-fer of minor SF cheapies
Indestructible Man is probably the most familiar, and beloved, of producer-director Jack Pollexfen's poverty-row epics (Neanderthal Man, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Atomic Brain). Pollexfen's name in the credits always means you're in no-budget-land. Another clue this time out is the preponderance of narration (indicating an absence of synch sound, of course). The movie gets what little rep it has from the casting of Lon Chaney as back-from-the-dead killer `The Butcher' Benton, although he actually looks ... Read More
Rating: - One of the most entertaining "bad" horrors ever made!
If you are a fan of low-budget horror and/or film noir, then you must see the struggling Lon Chaney, Jr., as the notorious Charles "Butcher" Benton! By 1956, poor Lon was accepting just about anything he could, being tormented by many demons and having been typecast so severely. (He did, however, also play several good character parts in non-horror Fifties A-films like HIGH NOON, NOT AS A STRANGER, A LION IS IN THE STREETS and THE DEFIANT ONES, something that neither Boris Karloff nor Bela Lugosi did ... Read More
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