Life Returns

Life Returns (1935)

The mystery of the man who conquered death!

A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.

Date of release
1935-01-02
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 3m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Science Fiction
Director
James P. Hogan, Eugene Frenke

Casting

Interesting facts

Life Returns is an American film directed by Eugene Frenke. The film stars Onslow Stevens, George P. Breakston and Lois Wilson with a plot that involves a doctor who is convinced that the dead can be brought back to life gets the chance to prove his theory on a dog that has recently died. Eugene Frenke created a film record of the operation and developed a film that would incorporate the footage of Robert E. Cornish who was doing experiments that successfully let him bring dead animals back to life.

Production

According to news items in Daily Variety, director Eugene Frenke was originally assigned to adapt Leo Tolstoi's novel Father Sergius to the screen, but Universal Pictures was concerned that the subject matter of the story would not be approved by censors, and assigned Frenke to direct an original story.

On May 22, 1934, at the University of Southern California, the scientist Robert E. Cornish succeeded in surgically and chemically restoring life to a dead dog. Eugene Frenke created a film record of the operation and developed a film that would incorporate the footage. Frenke contacting Universal Studios to split costs and profits on the film.

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