The Man Who Could Cheat Death is a 1959 British Hammer and Paramount horror film directed by the late Terence Fisher, produced by the late Anthony Nelson-Keys and the late Michael Carreras and starring the late Anton Diffring, the late Hazel Court, the late Arnold Marlé, the late Delphi Lawrence, the late Christopher Lee, and the late Francis de Wolff. It is an adaptation of the play The Man in Half Moon Street, written by the late Barré Lyndon in 1939.
In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly committing murder and using his victims’ parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss (Arnold Marlé) to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard (Christopher Lee) into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois (Hazel Court), a young lady in whom both Bonnet and Gerard are romantically interested.
Victims[]
- Unnamed Man - Strangled to death and throat burned by Dr. Georges Bonnet with his fluid hand.
- Professor Ludwig Weiss - Strangled to death and throat burned by Dr. Georges Bonnet with his fluid hand.
- Unnamed Woman - Killed by Dr. Georges Bonnet off-screen before the events of the film, mentioned.
- Three Unnamed People - Killed by Dr. Georges Bonnet off-screen before the events of the film, mentioned.
- Unnamed Woman - Killed by Dr. Georges Bonnet off-screen, scream heard.
- Dr. Georges Bonnet - Burned to death in a fire started by Margo Phillipe with a lamp after aging due to a gland transplant performed by Dr. Pierre Gerrard.
- Margo Phillipe - Burned to death in a fire she started by throwing a lamp at Dr. Georges Bonnet.
Deaths[]
- Total - 9
- 3 Men
- 3 Victims of Unknown Gender
- 3 Women
Kill Counts[]
- Dr. Georges Bonnet - 7 (Deceased)
- Dr. Pierre Gerrard - 1 (Alive)
- Margo Phillipe - 1 (Deceased)
