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Shanks

Oct 9, 1974
1h 33m
★ 4.9

A new concept in the macabre in which the Good come out of the grave and the Evil are sent to fill the vacancy.

Overview

Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.

Genres

Fantasy
Horror

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures
William Castle Productions

Cast

Marcel Marceau

Malcolm Shanks / Old Walker

Marcel Marceau

Tsilla Chelton

Mrs. Barton

Tsilla Chelton

Philippe Clay

Mr. Barton

Philippe Clay

Cindy Eilbacher

Celia

Cindy Eilbacher

Biff Manard

Goliath

Biff Manard

Helena Kallianiotes

Mata Hari

Helena Kallianiotes

Larry Bishop

Napoleon

Larry Bishop

Don Calfa

Einstein

Don Calfa

Phil Adams

Beethoven

Phil Adams

Read Morgan

Cop

Read Morgan

William Castle

Grocer

William Castle

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