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Shanks

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Original title

Shanks

Year

1974

Running time

93 min.

Country

United States

Director

William Castle

Screenwriter

Ranald Graham

Cast

Music

Alex North

Cinematography

Joseph F. Biroc

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Horror. Fantasy

Synopsis

Malcolm Shanks (Marcel Marceau) 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 instering 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.

Awards: 1974: Nominated for Oscar: Best Soundtrack

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Shanks

1974

William Castle

4.7

(26)