

Shanks
1974-10-09 · 93 min · ★ 5.2
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.
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- Directors
- William Castle
- Production companies
- Paramount Pictures, William Castle Productions
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Marcel MarceauMalcolm Shanks / Old Walker
Tsilla CheltonMrs. Barton
Philippe ClayMr. Barton
Cindy EilbacherCelia
Helena KallianiotesMata Hari
Larry BishopNapoleon
Don CalfaEinstein
Read MorganCop
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