A chilling classic horror mystery from 1940, The Man with Nine Lives follows a doctor who uncovers a terrifying secret hidden beneath the frozen snow. Starring Boris Karloff, this black-and-white thriller delivers suspense, eerie experiments, and unforgettable vintage horror atmosphere from Hollywood’s golden era.
Perfect for fans of classic horror movies, old mystery films, and legendary black-and-white cinema.
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00:02:01Pour ice in the container
00:02:08Start the other fan
00:02:18It's similar to anesthesia, isn't it, doctor?
00:02:20Not quite.
00:02:22His theory is based on reducing the body temperature to a subnormal degree.
00:02:26You see those containers?
00:02:28The gauge on the oxygen cylinder indicates the respiratory changes.
00:02:33Water, gradually chilled to an icy temperature, is pumped through the cooler into two tubes,
00:02:40one of which leads to the patient's chest, while the other is placed over the area which is to be
00:02:46treated.
00:02:46Ice is packed about the patient, while those fans aid in lowering the body temperature.
00:02:53The body is actually frozen.
00:02:56The kidneys and digestive organs no longer function.
00:02:59Temperature.
00:03:0390.
00:03:0480.
00:03:04Drop it.
00:03:05Two more degrees.
00:03:06More ice.
00:03:20Temperature.
00:03:2488.
00:03:31Metabolism at this time is practically nil.
00:03:33The only sign of life is the easy rhythm of the patient's heartbeat.
00:03:37By subjecting the body to freezing temperatures, the repair tissues in the body are greatly strengthened,
00:03:42while the malignant cells are retarded from growing.
00:03:45Are there any questions?
00:03:46How long is it possible to keep your patient in this state of coma, Dr. Mason?
00:03:51Now, that is something we have yet to determine.
00:04:03Fans.
00:04:23Eating pad.
00:04:28Hot coffee.
00:05:05Hammer.哎j
00:05:05how long
00:05:14is it possible. Ami
00:05:15had past
00:05:16Dr.
00:05:16Mason
00:05:16our time
00:05:18How do you feel?
00:05:20Fine.
00:05:22My nap helped me.
00:05:23Your nap?
00:05:24You've been asleep five days.
00:05:29Five.
00:05:30Five days?
00:05:32You feel any pain?
00:05:35No.
00:05:38It's all gone.
00:05:41You better be quiet now.
00:05:44All right.
00:05:50Most remarkable, doctor.
00:05:51Congratulations, Mason.
00:05:52You've proved your theory.
00:05:54Humanity will go down on its knees to you.
00:05:55Gentlemen, there's so much to be said.
00:05:57Save it for your medical thesis.
00:05:59You know, there's been nothing like this since the discovery of anesthesia.
00:06:02I certainly appreciate it.
00:06:03Yes, sir.
00:06:03Yes, sir.
00:06:05Yes, sir.
00:06:22Come in.
00:06:28I'm proud of you, Tim.
00:06:30You've astounded the world and revolutionized the whole profession of medicine.
00:06:34Nah, you know better than that, Judy.
00:06:36All I've been able to do is give temporary relief.
00:06:39The time and temperature elements are so important.
00:06:42If I could have kept that woman cold enough, long enough, to have killed the malignant cells and still not
00:06:47harm the healthy tissues, that would have been something.
00:06:52No, I'm a long, long way from having this thing ready for general practice.
00:06:56Any applause you happen to hear along the way belongs to somebody else.
00:06:59I'm not claiming originality.
00:07:02What wouldn't I give to know what experiments this man carried out before he died?
00:07:06Judy, this book has been my whole inspiration for this work.
00:07:10There are statements in here I'd give my right eye to be able to prove.
00:07:13Listen to this.
00:07:15A mouse, heavily infected with cancer, was prepared for and subjected to freezing at 100 degrees below zero by means
00:07:23of liquid hydrogen.
00:07:25Revived at the end of two weeks, completely free from all cancerous growth.
00:07:30How would you like to be able to prove something like that to these doubting Thomases around here?
00:07:35100 degrees below zero? That's impossible.
00:07:38How do we know?
00:07:39What does he mean by prepared for freezing?
00:07:43What did he do?
00:07:44Isn't there some way of tracing that information?
00:07:47No, he lived and worked alone, in secret.
00:07:49He lived a hermit's existence at a place called Silver Lake, up near the Canadian border.
00:07:53I've tried to trace him, but he disappeared, ten years ago.
00:07:56Didn't he keep any other records of his experiments?
00:07:59None that I can locate.
00:08:00The people I've written to about him don't seem to want to give much information.
00:08:05Come in.
00:08:08Dr. Harvey.
00:08:10You marry me, Miss Blair.
00:08:12You've been so close to Dr. Mason in this work that I want you to hear my comments.
00:08:17Dr. Mason, as a research man myself, I congratulate you on your brilliant experiments.
00:08:23But as head of this hospital, I deplore the unfortunate result of your premature announcement of a cure,
00:08:29which is by no means ready for general distribution.
00:08:31Well, I didn't announce that I'd found a positive cure.
00:08:33You caused it to be said, and that amounts to the same thing.
00:08:36Well, all I ever did was give a public demonstration of the progress I've made so far
00:08:39and let the observers draw their own conclusions.
00:08:41That's precisely what you shouldn't have done.
00:08:43If I hadn't been away, I would have stopped you.
00:08:46What are we going to tell all these people who are wiring and writing in, begging for treatment?
00:08:51Are you ready to take the responsibility of curing them?
00:08:53But I promised no cure.
00:08:55I tried to demonstrate a new principle of treatment.
00:08:58Well, I admire your spirit, but it is not in line with modern medical research.
00:09:03The day of the lone wolf experimenter is dead.
00:09:06Vast organizations are today fitted with every conceivable device
00:09:10to check, test, prove, and verify every step of a new treatment.
00:09:15And that, Mason, is what we're going to do with your frozen therapy.
00:09:19Turn it over to an unbiased staff of experts to re-perform all your experiments
00:09:24and check their independent findings with yours.
00:09:27But until that re-checked proof appears,
00:09:30we must not extend promises which we might be unable to fulfill.
00:09:34You're taking the subject away from me entirely?
00:09:36Only for the time being.
00:09:38We will carry on without, shall we say, so much publicity.
00:09:44Well, I don't know what to say.
00:09:47You've taken the wind out of my sails.
00:09:51I'd rather you'd be out of touch with the newspapers for a while.
00:09:54Take a leave of absence, a vacation.
00:09:57You need the rest anyway.
00:09:59Is that an order?
00:10:00Well, I don't like the word.
00:10:03Let's say it's for the benefit of our profession.
00:10:07Goodbye.
00:10:09And good luck.
00:10:18Well, I guess I should have kept my mouth shut till I was sure.
00:10:22But, Tim, he doesn't understand.
00:10:25That's just it.
00:10:26He does.
00:10:26He's 100% right.
00:10:28You know, Judy, a long time ago, somebody said,
00:10:30the step from the laboratory to the bedside is the most dangerous one.
00:10:34Finish the quotation.
00:10:36He also said, but that step must be taken.
00:10:39When do we leave for Silver Lake?
00:10:42To Dr. Cavall's laboratory or bedside or whatever we'll find there.
00:10:47You know, I had it in mind the moment Dr. Harvey stepped into this room.
00:10:51Where is Silver Lake?
00:10:53Well, I don't know, but there's an atlas in this drawer.
00:11:06Yeah.
00:11:07Yeah, here it is.
00:11:08Hidden away in the mountains, up by the Canadian border.
00:11:11What we need is four new tires and gasoline money.
00:11:30We'd like to rent a boat.
00:11:31Yes, sir.
00:11:32Boat's at 25 cents an hour.
00:11:34There's a dollar deposit when you leave.
00:11:36Of course, if you're losing all, that's extra.
00:11:39Are you fishing or looking?
00:11:40Just looking.
00:11:41We want to go off the island.
00:11:43Crater Island?
00:11:44Yeah, we want to see the old Cavall house.
00:11:46Mister, don't you go near Crater Island.
00:11:48Don't land on it.
00:11:49Why not?
00:11:50Well, just don't land on it, that's all.
00:11:52Why? Is there any law against it?
00:11:54No, there's no law.
00:11:56Although it's government property now.
00:11:58It went back for taxes after Dr. Cavall disappeared.
00:12:01That was about ten years ago, wasn't it?
00:12:02Yeah.
00:12:03Say, what business is that of yours anyway?
00:12:06Professional interest.
00:12:07I'm Dr. Mason of King Hospital.
00:12:09Do you happen to know whether Dr. Cavall left any notebooks or records of his work?
00:12:13No, I don't.
00:12:15Nobody knows.
00:12:16Nobody wants to know.
00:12:20Why don't you go back to your hospital, Doc?
00:12:22Because I want to see the island.
00:12:23Well, see it.
00:12:25But don't land.
00:12:27Tell me, what's all this mystery?
00:12:29Well, I can tell you this much.
00:12:30Ten years ago, Dr. Cavall, Ed Stanton, he was the sheriff.
00:12:35John Hawthorne, Doc Bassett, and young Bob Adams stepped into a boat on this very spot.
00:12:42And they rode out to that island.
00:12:44They ain't been seen since.
00:12:46None of them.
00:12:47But people don't just disappear.
00:12:49Well, these did.
00:12:50And when they didn't show up the next day, we went over to investigate.
00:12:55We found the boat all moored, safe and sound.
00:12:59Nothing touched.
00:13:00The house as neat as a pin.
00:13:02We found their hats and coats.
00:13:04But there was no sign of a struggle.
00:13:06No bloodstains.
00:13:08Nothing.
00:13:09Why, we didn't find as much as a hair from any one of those five men.
00:13:14Now, you take my advice and you and your young lady keep away.
00:13:18Why, there ain't nobody set foot on that place now for ten years.
00:13:23Are you still going?
00:13:24What do you think?
00:13:27Well.
00:13:29It isn't too late to change our minds, Tim.
00:13:31No, I've come this far.
00:13:32I'm going the rest of the way.
00:13:56Well, remember what I told you.
00:13:58All right.
00:14:26Well, here we are.
00:14:44I've never seen a better specimen of a haunted house.
00:15:16Let's take our look and get out of here.
00:15:18What's the matter?
00:15:18Did that boatman scare you?
00:15:20Come on.
00:15:26All right, look.
00:15:27Let's see what's in there.
00:15:33Well, there's his laboratory.
00:15:35Yes.
00:15:36Say, look.
00:15:37This tree grew right in through the window.
00:15:48Dry rot.
00:15:54Judy.
00:15:55Judy.
00:15:57Judy.
00:15:59Judy.
00:16:03Judy, are you all right?
00:16:05Are you hurt?
00:16:08I don't think so, but I'm scared, Tim.
00:16:10Oh, of course you are.
00:16:11Okay, we'll get out of here and...
00:16:15Hello.
00:16:19Oh, a tunnel.
00:16:20The door.
00:16:50I don't think so.
00:16:50Still game?
00:16:52Uh-huh.
00:16:54Well, here we go.
00:17:08189, 190, 191 steps.
00:17:12We must be down at least 100 feet.
00:17:14Oh, it's cold down here.
00:17:18Hey, look. There's a door.
00:17:24What do you think's on the other side?
00:17:26Well, I don't know what I'm gonna find out.
00:17:32Tim!
00:17:33What's the matter?
00:17:34Look over there.
00:17:36Tim, let's get out of here.
00:17:38Not until I find out what's back at this door.
00:17:41Here, hold this light.
00:17:45Now, I'm certain no one went to all this trouble to build a rumpus room.
00:17:51Here it comes.
00:18:00Give me the light.
00:18:13See, there's a lamp over there. Maybe there's some oil in it.
00:18:19Yeah. Here, hold this.
00:18:36Dr. Kaval's secret laboratory.
00:18:38Uh-huh.
00:18:43There's a lot of broken glass on the floor.
00:18:45Yeah, looks like he must have left here in a hurry.
00:18:48Say, look at this.
00:18:50A shelf full of every kind of concentrated poison.
00:18:55That's about the nicest collection of sudden death I've ever seen.
00:18:59Tim, don't you think we ought to go back and report this to the authorities?
00:19:02No, not until we've seen the rest of it.
00:19:04There's another door over here.
00:19:08Could we come back in furs? I'm freezing.
00:19:10So am I, but we've got to see what's back at this door.
00:19:43It's solid ice.
00:19:45Yeah, that's what I expected.
00:19:47Look!
00:19:52Well, that must be Dr. Kaval.
00:19:54Tim.
00:19:55Judy, do you suppose he...
00:19:57We've got to get in there.
00:19:59Hand me that axe, will you?
00:20:05We're out.
00:20:34Well, you know what, but...
00:20:35What's the train?
00:20:36What's the train?
00:20:40I'm sorry.
00:20:45Hold my hand.
00:20:50Oh!
00:20:52Oh!
00:20:53Oh!
00:20:53I'm sorry!
00:20:57Oh!
00:20:58Oh!
00:21:00Oh!
00:21:04Oh, it's like a blast from the Arctic.
00:21:06But, Judith, don't you get it?
00:21:07The laboratory, the ice, for the whole setup.
00:21:11I'm gonna get him out of here, build a fire,
00:21:13try to find some blankets, anything but hurry.
00:21:32It's been three hours and 20 minutes since we started working on him.
00:21:36What do you think?
00:21:37I can't tell. If the circulation has started,
00:21:39it's so slow and so faint I can't detect it.
00:21:43Seems to be taking on a little color.
00:21:45Judy, get me your pocket mirror, will you, please?
00:22:02He's breathing.
00:22:03Get me some more of that coffee.
00:22:40Who are you?
00:22:42I'm Dr. Mason of King Hospital.
00:22:44This is Miss Blair, my fiancée and a nurse.
00:22:46We came here to search for your records, doctor,
00:22:49and found you frozen in the next room.
00:22:50We're both experienced in modern frozen therapy,
00:22:53and we gave you the standard treatment for revival,
00:22:55and you've reacted perfectly.
00:22:59Standard model.
00:23:02I thought no one believed in this but me.
00:23:07Oh, no, doctor.
00:23:08We've made great strides in frozen therapy
00:23:10since you disappeared ten years ago.
00:23:14Ten years?
00:23:20What year is this?
00:23:221940.
00:23:33I've been in there ten years.
00:23:36Frozen for ten years?
00:23:39It's fantastic.
00:23:40Fantastic?
00:23:42Why?
00:23:44There's no reason...
00:23:46No, doctor, don't.
00:23:47Tell me.
00:23:48Tell me, how did you come to be in the ice vault?
00:23:50Did you lock yourself in?
00:23:51No.
00:23:53You wouldn't know that, would you?
00:23:56It's yesterday afternoon to me.
00:23:59To you, it's...
00:24:02It's ten years ago.
00:24:05Hmm?
00:24:06Ten years.
00:24:09Oh, 1930.
00:24:15Ten years ago, I was conducting a crucial experiment on a private patient who'd been given up to die by
00:24:25other doctors.
00:24:27I could have cured him, but his nephew forced his way into this house demanding to see his uncle at
00:24:34once.
00:24:35On account of the nature of the treatment, I refused.
00:24:41So they had me arrested, taken before the district attorney for questioning.
00:24:48You say your patient is alive?
00:24:50He is.
00:24:51Then why are you hiding him?
00:24:52I refuse to answer.
00:24:54He refuses to answer because my uncle is dead.
00:24:55Dr. Craval, let me warn you that the law has means of forcing you to produce your patient unless you
00:25:01reveal him to us voluntarily.
00:25:02I doubt that.
00:25:03We can trace every move you made since you took Jasper Adams from the hospital to your island home.
00:25:08We can tear your house down bit by bit if necessary until we find your patient or his body.
00:25:15Now, what have you done with him?
00:25:18What have you done with him?
00:25:20I have given you my personal and professional assurance that Jasper Adams is alive and on the way to recovery.
00:25:26He placed his life unreservedly in my hands and I'm responsible only to him.
00:25:30Look here, Dr. Craval, I'm a medical man of good standing.
00:25:33I examined Jasper Adams six months ago and I say no power on earth could ever cure that man.
00:25:38And I say that thirty years ago medical men of your standing were saying the same thing about the yellow
00:25:44fever patients.
00:25:45But because a handful of men had the courage to give their lives to a great experiment, yellow fever is
00:25:51now a thing of the past.
00:25:52Fevers one thing, cancer's another.
00:25:54If you've been able to cure Jasper Adams, why don't you publish it to the world for the benefit of
00:25:58humanity instead of hiding it away?
00:26:00Because he's a fake. He knew my uncle was rich, knew he'd spent thousands of dollars all over the world
00:26:06trying to find a cure.
00:26:07So he got to my uncle, promised him an absolute cure, if he could work on him secretly and alone.
00:26:12My uncle fell for this scheme because he was dying and desperate.
00:26:16Why, this whole thing has been nothing but a cold-blooded, murdering scheme to bleed a dying man of money.
00:26:21Well, are you going to let him get away with this silence? What can it mean but guilt?
00:26:25Just because a man has an M.D. after his name, can he do as he pleases with human lives?
00:26:29Now take it easy. We'll see that everybody gets a fair deal.
00:26:33What have you to say, Dr. Craval?
00:26:35Nothing. I would expect young Mr. Adams to think the way he does.
00:26:40Well, what are you going to do about it?
00:26:42You're under arrest, Dr. Craval. I intend to have the sheriff hold you until you produce the body of Jasper
00:26:47Adams alive or dead.
00:26:49But you can't do that. My patient is depending upon me for his life. I must be free to attend
00:26:53him.
00:26:54He means free to disappear. Don't let him go.
00:26:56You can't hold me here.
00:26:57Oh, yes, I can. But if you'll take a competent authority such as Dr. Bassett to your patient with you
00:27:03to make an examination on behalf of the state...
00:27:05No other doctor has ever been able to grasp the basic principles of what I'm doing.
00:27:09I've explained it to the highest authorities in medicine and they scoffed at it. Call me insane.
00:27:14I must furnish them a living proof.
00:27:16You show me Jasper Adams alive and improved in health and I'll be the first to admit I'm wrong.
00:27:21But the treatment is so drastic. I'm just afraid that you'll try to interfere and that will be fatal.
00:27:27Is it any worse than staying locked up here and letting him die?
00:27:30If you don't agree to this, you'll have to remain in custody.
00:27:33I can't do that. He would die. I must be there when... when what?
00:27:39Never mind. I'll take you. I can't help myself.
00:27:46But if anything goes wrong, the responsibility is yours for forcing this upon me.
00:27:51Let's go, Doc.
00:28:00Sure, some storm, if it gets much rougher, may not be able to make it back tonight.
00:28:04I've got to get back. Let's not waste time.
00:28:12Where is the patient?
00:28:14Just leave your coats here, gentlemen, and follow me.
00:28:22Let's go, Nora.
00:28:22Let's go.
00:28:27Let's go.
00:28:59All right, gentlemen, but be careful. The steps are narrow.
00:29:08Aren't you going?
00:29:25Why are you closing that door?
00:29:26When you're ready to leave, the door will be opened.
00:29:49Right down here, gentlemen.
00:29:51It seems to be getting colder.
00:30:14It must be agreed that I'm showing you my patient only on condition that he is not disturbed.
00:30:19Oh, sure. We're all agreed. Where is he?
00:30:21Through here.
00:30:22Here we go.
00:30:46He's been sleeping this way for almost a month. And when he awakens, he'll be cured.
00:30:53This man's frozen.
00:30:55Of course.
00:30:56But you said he was alive.
00:30:57He is.
00:30:58This man's stone dead.
00:31:00Are you sure, Dr. Bassett?
00:31:02Of course I'm sure.
00:31:03I knew it. He killed him, and that's why he hid the body. Take him in charge, Sheriff.
00:31:07Wait a minute. I warned you you wouldn't understand, and you promised not to interfere.
00:31:12That promise is withdrawn.
00:31:13Come on. You lying cheat.
00:31:15Better put handcuffs on him.
00:31:17Wait.
00:31:17Dr. Bassett, this is not the first, but the sixth time this man has been under frozen therapy.
00:31:23And each time in advance, I've given him protective medicine to keep the freezing process from harming him in any
00:31:28way.
00:31:28And each time he's appeared as he does now, dead.
00:31:32But just as life existed then, I know it exists now.
00:31:35What do you think, Bassett?
00:31:36We're wasting time.
00:31:38No human being can live after his temperature drops 10 degrees below normal.
00:31:41This man's frozen through and through. He's dead.
00:31:43But what about this protective hazard?
00:31:45There's no such medicine known to science.
00:31:47Better have him locked up.
00:31:49Take him in.
00:31:50Come along, Doctor.
00:31:51Dr. Bassett, I protest.
00:31:53Give me a chance, Brooks.
00:31:54Help me move this stretcher.
00:31:55You must allow me to remain with my patient.
00:32:00Dr. Bassett, that man is not dead.
00:32:03He's under deep anesthesia.
00:32:04I can restore him to consciousness, but it'll take time.
00:32:07He must come out of it gradually.
00:32:09I daren't risk the shock of a sudden awakening.
00:32:11No.
00:32:11Then put me under arrest.
00:32:13Have an armed guard, if you like.
00:32:14But I must remain here until my patient awakens naturally,
00:32:17or I cannot be responsible for his life.
00:32:19We'll sit here until doomsday before he ever wakes up.
00:32:22If Jasper Adams isn't dead, then one of us is crazy.
00:32:25Bassett, you're unreasonable.
00:32:26Give me an hour.
00:32:27Let's get out of here before we all catch pneumonia.
00:32:29Then give me just a moment, just one moment to demonstrate my theory.
00:32:33I can prove this man's alive.
00:32:36Now then, here we have the basic solution,
00:32:40which acts as an anesthetic.
00:32:58This is the activator.
00:33:03This works against the basic solution
00:33:06and counteracts its poisonous properties.
00:33:18Forty minutes.
00:33:23And this substance
00:33:28protects the tissues
00:33:30from the cold.
00:33:33What are those chemicals?
00:33:35I don't know, but I don't trust him.
00:33:48Two minutes.
00:33:53Well, gentlemen,
00:33:55there's enough poison in this to kill a hundred men.
00:33:59The slightest jar will release its poisonous vapors.
00:34:01I told you.
00:34:02You'll return the patient to my care,
00:34:04or we'll all die together.
00:34:06Stay where you are, Sheriff.
00:34:07I can crash this to the floor
00:34:09before you can move a hand.
00:34:11I'm going to lock you in the ice chamber
00:34:12until I've restored my patient to normal.
00:34:14Oh, no, you're not.
00:34:15Get out!
00:34:19Poison.
00:34:20We've got to get out of here.
00:34:21We can't.
00:34:21That stuff's between us and the doorway.
00:34:23In here!
00:34:24Quick!
00:34:26Come back here.
00:34:27You're not going to leave us.
00:34:36Is there any other way out of here?
00:34:39It's all over there.
00:34:40Out of the road.
00:34:57Open the door!
00:35:00There's no other way out of here!
00:35:02Break it down!
00:35:04People will face us.
00:35:05Find out what you've done.
00:35:07Don't do this to us.
00:35:10Don't!
00:35:14Adams.
00:35:17Casper Adams.
00:35:25That's as far as I remember.
00:35:27Well, thank heaven you're alive.
00:35:29But I don't understand.
00:35:31It's impossible.
00:35:33As you both know,
00:35:35a man can live indefinitely
00:35:37if his body's been immunized
00:35:39from the freezing process.
00:35:40But mine wasn't.
00:35:42I should be dead.
00:35:44Doctor, you'd better rest.
00:35:46No, I...
00:35:46I must think.
00:35:48Why didn't it kill me?
00:35:50I took nothing to keep myself
00:35:52from freezing to death,
00:35:53and yet I lived.
00:35:57It's impossible,
00:35:59and yet it happened.
00:36:05Doctor, you shouldn't.
00:36:08Jasper Adams was here.
00:36:10I left him here.
00:36:12How did he get out?
00:36:13What happened to him?
00:36:14Doctor Craval.
00:36:17In that outer room.
00:36:28Jasper Adams.
00:36:29Jasper Adams.
00:36:30Now, how...
00:36:32Did you move him?
00:36:34No.
00:36:39I see.
00:36:40He must have regained consciousness
00:36:42while we were in the ice chamber,
00:36:44found himself here alone,
00:36:46tried to grope his way out
00:36:47up the stairs in the dark,
00:36:49and fell to his death.
00:36:51But still,
00:36:52that doesn't explain
00:36:53what kept me alive.
00:37:04The vapour.
00:37:06The vapour we breathed
00:37:08when I dropped the graduate.
00:37:10That's the answer.
00:37:12By sheerest accident,
00:37:13the fumes we inhaled
00:37:15were in perfect proportion
00:37:16to carry us safely
00:37:17through the years,
00:37:18frozen in the ice.
00:37:19Then those other men
00:37:20must be alive too.
00:37:21Nurse.
00:37:21Yes, Doctor?
00:37:22Get more blankets
00:37:23out of their chest.
00:37:23We're going to revive those.
00:37:24men.
00:37:25Dr. Mason,
00:37:26we're at the end
00:37:27of the trail.
00:37:28The heart of the secret
00:37:30is that the protection
00:37:31must be given
00:37:32by inhalation,
00:37:33not by injection.
00:37:35That formula.
00:37:36I remember writing it.
00:37:38Where is it?
00:37:42Right where I left it.
00:37:46We're going to get
00:37:46those men out at once.
00:37:48Doctor,
00:37:48hadn't you better
00:37:48take it easy
00:37:49and let me do most of this?
00:37:50Ah, no, my boy.
00:37:51You do as you're told.
00:37:52These are my patients.
00:37:53That's right.
00:37:54We'll leave lots
00:37:55of hot water
00:37:56so keep up the fire.
00:37:57Yes, Doctor.
00:38:00Door is there.
00:38:02Well, I don't see
00:38:03how you keep
00:38:03all this ice down here.
00:38:04What makes it?
00:38:05It's the underground arm
00:38:06of the glacier.
00:38:07It's been here
00:38:08for centuries.
00:38:09There's no idea.
00:38:12There's no idea.
00:38:30There's no idea.
00:38:59Oh, Judy!
00:39:00Judy!
00:39:03Can you give me a hand?
00:39:10That's it.
00:39:11All right, doctor.
00:39:12Go ahead.
00:39:40More coffee.
00:39:41It's all gone.
00:39:42I'll have to melt this ice before we can make any more.
00:39:44Haven't I better go to the mainland and make arrangements to move these men ashore so they can be treated
00:39:48properly?
00:39:48Oh, that won't be necessary.
00:39:49They'll recover just as I did.
00:39:51Of course, for an hour or two, we can all leave and announce this discovery to the world.
00:39:56Dr. Craval, do you realize the importance of what you've accomplished?
00:40:00I've accomplished.
00:40:01That's good.
00:40:03I worked for 20 years to find a thing, and at last it's achieved by accident.
00:40:07But we don't care how it happens, do we?
00:40:10So long as we get results.
00:40:22Say, what is this?
00:40:24Stimulant.
00:40:26It's going to be a little hard for him, on account of his condition, but it isn't good.
00:40:30Oh, by the way, this is Dr. Bassett, the coroner, who was so sure that a man could not be
00:40:35frozen and still live.
00:40:38And this is Mr. John Hawthorne.
00:40:40He's the district attorney whose only idea at our last meeting was to convict me of murder and have me
00:40:45hanged.
00:40:47And here's young Mr. Adams, who's really responsible for this whole thing.
00:40:51And this rather groggy gentleman is Sheriff Stanton.
00:41:00You.
00:41:01You.
00:41:03That won't be necessary now.
00:41:05Now, you'll be all right.
00:41:07You'll be all right.
00:41:08Oh.
00:41:10Craval.
00:41:10Here, take it easy.
00:41:11But it's Craval, let me out of here.
00:41:13Easy.
00:41:13We're your friends.
00:41:14There's no need to be afraid.
00:41:15Sure, come on.
00:41:16Here, sit down over here.
00:41:17Well, what happened?
00:41:20This is Dr. Mason and Miss Blair who discovered us in the ice stream.
00:41:24You must get in touch with my office.
00:41:26You have no office.
00:41:29Let it sink into your brain that this is the year 1940 and that you've been buried, lost, frozen in
00:41:36the ice for ten years.
00:41:38Why, it can't be.
00:41:40It's true, Mr. Hawthorne.
00:41:42This is 1940.
00:41:44Ten years.
00:41:46I can't believe it.
00:41:49But I'll know for myself when I reach the mainland.
00:41:51Which will not be until you've had food and a chance to regain your strength.
00:41:55Did you say food?
00:41:57I did.
00:41:57There's plenty in the storeroom.
00:41:59But while we're preparing it for you, I suggest that you think over the changed aspects of the case as
00:42:05it stands today.
00:42:07We five are the proof that men can live after ten years of frozen sleep.
00:42:12But there was a sixth man in this room ten years ago, Jasper Adams, who did not survive.
00:42:17Of course not.
00:42:18You'd already killed him.
00:42:19Oh, no.
00:42:20He awakened in this room alone and died for lack of attendance as I said he would.
00:42:25Who's responsible for that, Mr. Hawthorne?
00:42:27Am I who begged for a chance to remain with him or you who denied me that right?
00:42:32I'm going back to the mainland with complete vindication of my theory.
00:42:36But I wonder what you're going back to when I prove that the death of my patient is your responsibility.
00:42:43Just see that they remain quiet when we come back.
00:42:45I'll show you where the storeroom is.
00:42:51Oh, did you ever hear such raving nonsense?
00:42:54Ten years.
00:42:54No, it's true.
00:42:55This is 1940.
00:42:56Here.
00:42:57Take a look at my driver's license.
00:42:59My club card.
00:43:03Now, you wait here a minute while I light the lamp.
00:43:11There we are.
00:43:12You see, there's plenty of food there.
00:43:14It's cold storage, perhaps, but still good.
00:43:17There's the stove.
00:43:19I think we'll start with hot soup.
00:43:25All right.
00:43:27Well, have it ready in a jiffy.
00:43:29Good girl.
00:43:31Yes, Dr. Bassett.
00:43:32I imagine you'll find things quite changed on the mainland.
00:43:34Here's some good hot soup for you.
00:43:36There you are, Sheriff.
00:43:37I'll be fine.
00:43:39Dr. Bassett.
00:43:44Well, Mr. Hawthorne, have you found the answer to my question yet?
00:43:47Yes.
00:43:49Under the law, a person is declared legally dead after seven years' disappearance.
00:43:52Therefore, we've been legally dead for the past three years.
00:43:56And we're not responsible to anybody for anything.
00:43:59Excellent.
00:44:01I see your mind is rounded back into its customary legal form.
00:44:05I congratulate you.
00:44:06Wait a minute.
00:44:07I was my uncle's heir.
00:44:08I stood to inherit a put of a million dollars.
00:44:11Do you mean to say I can't collect my inheritance?
00:44:13Not legally.
00:44:15You're officially dead.
00:44:16And the matter ends there.
00:44:18Hey!
00:44:18You cost me all that money with your crazy experiment.
00:44:21I'm sorry, but if you think of something beside yourself, you'll realize that this is worth a great deal more
00:44:27than the money you'd only have squandered in any event.
00:44:30This piece of paper opens up a whole new field of medical practice.
00:44:35Think of it.
00:44:36When we reach the mainland with this new weapon, an army of doctors will spring into action overnight.
00:44:41And the battle to wipe one more plague from the face of the earth is launched.
00:44:46You're not fooling me.
00:44:47You think you've made a great discovery, at my expense, and that you're going to cash in on it for
00:44:50all it's worth.
00:44:51Let me remind you that you forced yourself into this place against my wishes.
00:44:55Anything that happened to your inheritance is your fault, not mine.
00:45:00As for this, it's my gift to the world to be used by anyone who needs it, free of charge.
00:45:06Oh, don't try that noble stuff on me.
00:45:08You've got a fortune, and I've got nothing.
00:45:10And if you think you're going away with a thing like that, you're a crazy.
00:45:13Adams!
00:45:14Adams, that paper!
00:45:25He's dead.
00:45:26Murdered.
00:45:28You call everything murder, don't you?
00:45:31I should have fired a second sooner.
00:45:33Don't you realize what that boy has done?
00:45:35I only know what you did, and we're all witnesses.
00:45:37You better give me that gun, Doctor.
00:45:38No.
00:45:39I've seen the work of a lifetime destroyed in a second.
00:45:42The technique of a new cure that I found it by accident, but now it's gone.
00:45:47That paper held it.
00:45:48But you know what was on it.
00:45:49Would I have killed a man to save it if I did?
00:45:52I know the ingredients, yes, but the proportions that make the difference between life and death.
00:45:58Do you know them?
00:45:59Do you know what kept us alive for ten years?
00:46:01Well, I don't.
00:46:02I had them in my hand, and they're gone.
00:46:04I honestly believe, Doctor, you should give yourself up.
00:46:07We'll swear to the provocation.
00:46:08The courts would be lenient.
00:46:09And let me off with manslaughter.
00:46:13Do you think I'm going back to rot in prison while the memory of what was on that piece of
00:46:18paper fades from my mind?
00:46:19Right now I can almost see those figures.
00:46:22And if I could...
00:46:27Nobody leaves this place until I've rediscovered the exact proportions of that formula.
00:46:32But that may take days.
00:46:34Or weeks.
00:46:34All I know is that if I delay, I may never find one.
00:46:37But how can you tell when you get the proportions right?
00:46:39You need laboratory animals.
00:46:42I have laboratory animals.
00:46:44Here.
00:46:49No.
00:46:50You're not going to use us.
00:46:51Why not?
00:46:52If the outside world remembers us at all, it thinks of us as dead.
00:46:56Our lives are finished.
00:46:58But at least we have a chance to give back to the world what that boy has destroyed.
00:47:03But doctor...
00:47:04I have no desire to harm any of you.
00:47:06I may succeed at the very first test.
00:47:08I only hope I do.
00:47:11But if any of you make any attempt to escape or interfere with this work, I shall kill him.
00:47:30The man's a maniac.
00:47:31But there's only one of him and five of us.
00:47:34Yes, but he's armed.
00:47:35We've got to rush him all at once.
00:47:37That's our only chance.
00:47:37Give me a hand, will you, Sheriff?
00:47:39Yeah.
00:47:44Over here.
00:47:52What's that?
00:48:06He's tearing out something.
00:48:08Must be the ladder.
00:48:10There goes our only chance to get out of here.
00:48:21There's no use kidding ourselves.
00:48:23We're in a spot.
00:48:23All we can do is wait for a break.
00:48:25We can destroy those chemicals.
00:48:43There must be some way out of this.
00:48:45What, for instance?
00:48:46We're locked in.
00:48:47No one knows we're here.
00:48:48And we have a madman for a jailer.
00:48:50We've all got to stick together.
00:48:51Never get separated.
00:48:52Not even for an instant.
00:48:54But from his viewpoint, he's perfectly justified.
00:48:56Oh, you talk like a fool.
00:48:57That's not necessary, Hawthorne.
00:48:59Oh, I suppose because of professional ethics, you feel the same way about him.
00:49:03In a measure.
00:49:03At least I can appreciate what he's trying to do.
00:49:05Why, you're actually defending him.
00:49:07You talk like him.
00:49:09Now, listen, Mason.
00:49:09You're either with us or against us.
00:49:11You do one thing to help that man and we'll all make you wish you hadn't.
00:49:14You men are hardly in a position to threaten anybody.
00:49:17Our lives aren't worth a nickel.
00:49:19We're guinea pigs to be experimented on by a maniac.
00:49:22Hawthorne, regardless of what you call Dr. Craval, or what you think of his methods,
00:49:26I think he's a great man.
00:49:28Attempting to do a great thing.
00:49:30There he is.
00:49:31Hey, let me alone.
00:49:32Let me alone.
00:49:35Let me alone.
00:49:37Let me alone.
00:49:37Let me alone.
00:49:37Good thing for us.
00:49:38They showed the true colors.
00:49:39Let that man go.
00:49:41Unlock those handcuffs.
00:49:44At once.
00:49:45I said at once.
00:49:51Over here, Dr. Mason, Miss Blair, please.
00:50:01It was a wasted effort, gentlemen, to destroy those materials.
00:50:05I have an ample supply in the storeroom.
00:50:07I'll call for you later, Dr. Bassett.
00:50:23She's wise to get her rest while she can.
00:50:26If I were you, I'd do the same thing.
00:50:28I can manage this without you.
00:50:29No, thanks.
00:50:30I'll sleep when you do.
00:50:50You have the bell jar, please.
00:51:15Over to the graduates.
00:51:24You don't approve, do you?
00:51:26Would it make any difference if I did?
00:51:29Not the slightest.
00:51:33You were shocked at the death of young Adams.
00:51:36That's because you're not yet steeled to the hard bargains
00:51:39fate sometimes drives with us.
00:51:41But tell me, Dr. Mason, which is more valuable to humanity,
00:51:45his life or my work?
00:51:47Your work, I suppose.
00:51:48You suppose?
00:51:50You know.
00:51:51This work is worth a thousand lives like his.
00:52:00Well, that should stand for a few hours
00:52:03to give the mixture a chance to settle.
00:52:07Why don't you try to get some sleep?
00:52:09No.
00:52:10I'm not sleepy.
00:52:12Here's a suggestion.
00:52:13We've got lots of work ahead of us.
00:52:15And I won't be needing you for a while.
00:52:18Well, in that case, I think I'll sit down over here and rest a while.
00:52:22As you please.
00:52:28Oh, it's you.
00:52:31Wouldn't you like to lie down a little while?
00:52:32No.
00:52:34I'm not sleepy.
00:52:37But you can relax while I'm awake.
00:52:40Yeah, but don't go away.
00:52:42Now, you nap for ten minutes while I make some tea.
00:52:44Well, call me if anything.
00:52:47I will.
00:52:50Dr. Carval, would you like some tea?
00:52:53Well, that's very kind of you.
00:52:55Yes, I would.
00:52:57You'll find some in the cupboard over there.
00:53:12It's watching the sea of the covered things.
00:53:13Yes, youföre.
00:53:17Sure.
00:53:18Yes, my friend.
00:53:19Yes, little boy.
00:53:19Okay.
00:53:28Now, it's in the cupboard.
00:53:35Come on.
00:54:08Oh, doctor, there's plenty of soup left if you'd like some.
00:54:12Why, thank you.
00:54:15I think I would like some.
00:54:17And those men in the other room could stand some more food.
00:54:20I wonder if you take it into them.
00:54:22I'd do it myself, but they'd refuse it from me.
00:54:25I understand.
00:54:26I'll get some dishes.
00:54:53I'm sorry about the dishes, but they're all I could find.
00:54:55Oh, it's all right.
00:54:57I'm sure they'll all be so hungry they won't care how it's served.
00:55:02Now, I'll go with you to the door.
00:55:07She'll be all right.
00:55:19Stand away from the door, please, gentlemen.
00:55:23I'm sending Miss Blair in with some food.
00:55:34I've brought you some more soup.
00:55:36What's she doing out there?
00:55:37I don't know.
00:55:38I've been asleep.
00:55:39Where's Dr. Mason?
00:55:40He's resting.
00:55:42Sure smells good.
00:55:43Oh, no, you don't.
00:55:44Let me go!
00:55:45You're staying right here with us.
00:55:47And if your Dr. Mason thinks anything at all of you, maybe he'll do something to help us.
00:55:51Because whatever happens to us happens to you, too.
00:56:09I can't move.
00:56:13Mr. Hawthorne!
00:56:16You.
00:56:18You.
00:56:19You did this.
00:56:20I didn't.
00:56:21I didn't know what he was doing.
00:56:22Let me help you to a tear.
00:56:24Ah!
00:56:28Dr. Kavar, you did this.
00:56:29What did you do to them?
00:56:31Now, now, Miss Blair.
00:56:32Come, this won't do at all.
00:56:33They're dead.
00:56:34I helped kill them.
00:56:35Nonsense.
00:56:36They're as well as you are.
00:56:38Just an anesthetic that won't hurt them a bit.
00:56:42Help me over here.
00:56:47Now take his pulse.
00:56:49I can't.
00:56:51Nurse.
00:56:57Take his pulse.
00:57:12Let me know the instant there's any change.
00:57:15Yes, doctor.
00:57:31It's a regular now.
00:57:35It's jumping.
00:57:39It's stopped.
00:57:41He's dead.
00:57:43Yes.
00:57:45He's dead.
00:57:54Tim.
00:57:55Tim, wake up.
00:57:56Wake up, Tim.
00:57:57What's the matter?
00:57:58He just killed Dr. Bassett.
00:57:59What?
00:58:00Yes, I was there.
00:58:01I saw him do it.
00:58:01He put a solution on a piece of cotton
00:58:03and made him inhale it.
00:58:25He put a solution on a piece of cotton and made him inhale it.
00:58:47You killed Dr. Bassett?
00:58:51I suppose it was too much to expect success of the first effort.
00:58:55Why didn't you call me?
00:58:56I'll call on you when I need you.
00:59:00You've got no right to say I killed Dr. Bassett.
00:59:03I'm no more to blame for his death than any surgeon.
00:59:05You, for instance, would be for losing a desperate case.
00:59:08More than anything in the world,
00:59:10I wanted to administer this mixture to Bassett and see him live.
00:59:14But it was not to be.
00:59:21Well, we still have two more chances.
00:59:25Will you please record as follows.
00:59:30Experiment number one.
00:59:33Henry Bassett, age about 40,
00:59:36while under anaesthetic was given basic solution,
00:59:39100 cc's, activating element 12 minims by inhalation.
00:59:43Death was instantaneous.
00:59:46Blood sample taken from the subject after death shows
00:59:51blood corpuscles are being destroyed, are disintegrating.
00:59:55as a typical reaction to very heavy poisoning.
01:00:02Well, obviously, the solution is too strongly activated.
01:00:08I'll reduce it to the absolute minimum.
01:00:10I'll reduce it to the minimum.
01:00:29Let's go.
01:00:32Stanton!
01:00:34Stanton, wake up! Wake up!
01:00:36What? What is it?
01:00:37Bassett. He's dead.
01:00:38He's in there dead.
01:00:40Craval killed him while we were knocked out.
01:00:42There was something in that soup.
01:00:43Bassett's dead?
01:00:44Yes, and we'll be next.
01:00:45That madman won't stop at anything.
01:00:47Craval's not gonna get his hands on me.
01:00:50Listen, you get over there in the corner.
01:00:52I'll hide here.
01:00:53If he finds one of us, his back will be turned to the other.
01:00:56I see.
01:00:56If he finds you first, stall him.
01:00:58Keep him facing you until I can get him from behind.
01:01:00Right.
01:01:05We'll try it again.
01:01:12This time with only four minims of the activator.
01:01:15Dr. Craval, legitimate experimenting with known elements is one thing, but what you're doing is rank guesswork.
01:01:20Trying this out on human beings is nothing short of murder and I won't let you do it.
01:01:24You won't let me.
01:01:26I'm sorry you take this stand.
01:01:28I'd hoped you had the courage and the imagination to help me.
01:01:32However, since you won't, I'll have to carry on alone.
01:01:35I'm going to lock you in here so that you can't interfere.
01:01:53What was that?
01:01:54A shot.
01:01:56Somebody must have attacked him.
01:02:01Who...
01:02:01But there was only one shot.
01:02:03Do you suppose whoever wasn't shot could've...
01:02:11Now there's no use getting panicky about it.
01:02:34THE END
01:02:57THE END
01:03:28Dr. Mason, I'm through.
01:03:30Take this record, go back to your laboratory, trace and retrace every step I've taken,
01:03:35and find my mistake if it takes you the rest of your life.
01:03:37You mean we can go?
01:03:38Yes. Out in the world you'll have laboratories.
01:03:42Colleagues for consultation, the finest of modern equipment at your disposal.
01:03:46It's your duty.
01:03:46How can we get out of here, Doctor? You've torn the ladder down.
01:03:49Oh, tables, boxes, anything you can pile up there where the ladder was.
01:03:52Come on, Tim.
01:04:19Dr. Mason, come here.
01:04:23Let's get out of here.
01:04:25Oh, wait a minute.
01:04:30That slide carries a sample of Hawthorne's blood.
01:04:33Now look in there and tell me what you see.
01:04:44Well, that's the strangest thing I ever saw.
01:04:46The blood corpuscles are dissolving, all of them.
01:04:49Disintegrating.
01:04:50Exactly, as in Bassett's case.
01:04:51Yet this man only had the vapor of four minims.
01:04:54Yet this sample shows his whole body was saturated.
01:04:58Mason, we found the truth.
01:05:01The fault was not in the solution at all,
01:05:03but in the bodies of the men we used for the experiment.
01:05:06Don't you understand?
01:05:07The strength of what I just gave them had nothing to do with their dying.
01:05:11It was the combination.
01:05:13The new mixture met the old one, which had soaked into their bodies for ten years,
01:05:17touched it off like a spark of gunpowder and killed them instantly.
01:05:21Possible.
01:05:22Possible.
01:05:22We can prove it.
01:05:23We're not defeated, Mason.
01:05:24We need bodies with no poison in them.
01:05:30Bodies like yours.
01:05:34Or hers.
01:05:36Tim!
01:05:41Judith, finish piling up those boxes.
01:05:43Then climb out yourself.
01:05:44When you get to the steps, call me.
01:05:45What about you?
01:05:45I'm not taking my eyes of this gun off him until you're clear.
01:05:48Then I'll follow.
01:05:48Now hurry.
01:05:49All right.
01:05:54Don't touch that bottle.
01:05:57Judith, you ready?
01:05:59Almost.
01:06:00No doubt you're going to inform the police of what has happened.
01:06:03Not a doubt in the world.
01:06:05Well, at least take this record book with you.
01:06:07Otherwise, they'll impound it as evidence.
01:06:09I'm not taking anything, Dr. Gravel.
01:06:13And I'll just lay it here where you can reach it.
01:06:19Judy!
01:06:27Tim.
01:06:27Tim!
01:06:29Tim!
01:06:32He'll be all right.
01:06:34And your scream helped as I hoped it would.
01:06:36Now come, Miss Blair.
01:06:38Don't touch me.
01:06:39Come.
01:06:42You know, I can always lock you in here.
01:06:45and perform the experiment on Dr. Mason,
01:06:48if you'd prefer that.
01:06:52Miss Blair.
01:07:25Now just breathe easily and quietly.
01:07:29No.
01:07:30No.
01:07:31There.
01:07:31Come on.
01:08:01Come on.
01:08:34Come on.
01:09:03Come on.
01:09:03There's no steps.
01:09:04We'll have to jump.
01:09:19There's a light burner.
01:09:21Hey, there's a man in here.
01:09:22Tie it up.
01:09:37Craval!
01:09:38He's alive.
01:09:39In there!
01:09:39Craval!
01:09:45We've got to get out of here.
01:09:46He's got Judith.
01:09:48Here, let me try that.
01:09:53Not enough.
01:09:55Not enough.
01:10:03Not enough.
01:10:06Here, let's see if this will do it.
01:10:09Here.
01:10:21Here.
01:10:24Here.
01:10:25Here.
01:10:30Here.
01:10:31Here.
01:10:31Here.
01:10:33Here.
01:10:37Here.
01:10:38Come out with your hands up.
01:10:40No, no.
01:10:41Not yet.
01:10:42I must know if she's alive.
01:10:52Here.
01:10:56Here.
01:10:59Here.
01:11:00Here.
01:11:05Here.
01:11:15Here.
01:11:31Here.
01:11:34Here.
01:11:34Here.
01:11:36Here.
01:11:44Here.
01:11:46Here.
01:11:48Here.
01:11:53Here.
01:12:01slowly bring her back slowly yes i know
01:12:10yes but the work's finished we'd better get into a hospital good time that book dr mason
01:12:22take it use it is there anything else you want to tell me
01:12:31work's finished
01:12:34taste good i for one am resolved that no matter what sacrifices i may be forced to make
01:12:41of myself or of others i will not be stopped in my search for this secret so long as i
01:12:47shall live
01:12:49that is the dedication of this research work and it is signed in a firm hand leon craval
01:12:57this book contains the records of some of the most amazing experiments i've ever read
01:13:03experiments on every kind of an animal including man
01:13:07i feel that we can do no better than to stand back of dr mason with everything we have
01:13:12give him unlimited time and equipment to complete the great unfinished work of dr craval
01:13:25good luck doctor thank you dr harvey it's unfortunate that dr craval's intensity of purpose
01:13:31his reaching for success forced him beyond the limits of the law he paid with his life
01:13:38that we might have this his parting gift to humanity whatever his crimes may have been
01:13:44i for one shall always remember him as a great man
01:13:47and a great benefactor
01:13:49thank you
01:13:58you
01:13:58you
01:13:58you
01:14:02you
01:14:06you
01:14:07you
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