Boris Karloff returned to Great Britain for a few films, this one The Man Who Lived Again being one of them. It was done for Gainsborough Pictures and it had Boris once again as a mad scientist. In the scientist role Karloff must have looked at this as familiar material.
As a scientist Karloff is doing Frankenstein like experiments. But not with cadavers and stolen brains creating life from the ground up. Here he's in the business of exchanging souls. Literally taking the experiences imprinted on our gray matter and with some mad scientist type equipment putting two animals or two men as it were and exchanging all the life experiences that sum up a human being and swapping it with another's experiences.
He's even impressed young doctor Anna Lee with his genius, but she runs when she learns the nature of his experiments.
It's an interesting premise, but Gainsborough Pictures didn't invest too heavily in this one other than get Karloff back from America.
I wonder if this is the origin of Freaky Friday and a host of imitators.
As a scientist Karloff is doing Frankenstein like experiments. But not with cadavers and stolen brains creating life from the ground up. Here he's in the business of exchanging souls. Literally taking the experiences imprinted on our gray matter and with some mad scientist type equipment putting two animals or two men as it were and exchanging all the life experiences that sum up a human being and swapping it with another's experiences.
He's even impressed young doctor Anna Lee with his genius, but she runs when she learns the nature of his experiments.
It's an interesting premise, but Gainsborough Pictures didn't invest too heavily in this one other than get Karloff back from America.
I wonder if this is the origin of Freaky Friday and a host of imitators.