The Man Who Lived Twice

Sep 25, 1936

1h 13m

★ 6.7

DEAD...BUT THE LAW WANTS TO KILL HIM!

Overview

A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Dr. James Blake / 'Slick' Rawley

Ralph Bellamy

Janet Haydon

Marian Marsh

Dr. Clifford L. Schuyler

Thurston Hall

Peggy Russell

Isabel Jewell

Margaret Schuyler

Nana Bryant

John 'Gloves' Baker

Ward Bond

Judge Henry Treacher

Henry Kolker

Police Insp. Logan

Willard Robertson

Nurse Cameron

Ann Doran

Aggie

Kathrin Clare Ward

Esme is still an unspoiled youth when she lets the AI's intellectual algorithms take her away from what awaits her: society's foremost initiation rite - the first plastic surgery. In Beata Gårdeler's visually poetic future, narcissism has taken over and the norms of beauty has been drawn to extreme.

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6.9

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5.3

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6.8

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7.7

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6.1

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6.6

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1.0

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4.7

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7.5

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6.1

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6.2

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5.9

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5.0

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0.0

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0.0

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4.4

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4.5

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