Before I Hang
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Before I Hang (1940, USA) is a Crime-Horror-Science Fiction film directed by Nick Grinde.
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Main Details
- Released on September 17, 1940
- B&W
- Running time: 62 minutes
- Production and Distribution Co.: Columbia Pictures
- Directed by Nick Grinde
- Written by Robert Hardy Andrew (story and screenplay) and Karl Brown (story)
- Starring: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett
Plot Summary
- A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
Taglines
- DOOMED TO KILL...BY THE MURDERER'S BLOOD IN HIS VEINS! (original print ad - all caps)
- Chill-filled tale of a monster!
- BEWARE! WHEN KARLOFF STOPS THE CLOCK YOUR HOUR HAS COME! (original poster-all caps)
- He's trying to turn time backward to find the secret of youth...as death claims one by one the victims of his blood lust! (Print Ad-Summit Herald, ((Summit, NJ)) 10 December 1940)
