Before I Hang

Before I Hang (1940)

Beware! When Karloff stops the clock, your hour has come!

  • Genre: Crime, Horror, Science Fiction
  • Release Date: 1940-09-17
  • User Rating: 6.2/10 from 33 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 2min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Columbia Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Nick Grindé
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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.

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  • Boris Karloff

    as Dr. John Garth
  • Evelyn Keyes

    as Martha Garth
  • Bruce Bennett

    as Dr. Paul Ames
  • Don Beddoe

    as Capt. McGraw
  • Edward Van Sloan

    as Dr. Ralph Howard
  • Ben Taggart

    as Warden Thompson
  • Pedro de Cordoba

    as Victor Sondini
  • Wright Kramer

    as George Wharton
  • Bertram Marburgh

    as Stephen Barclay
  • Robert Fiske

    as District Attorney
  • Frank Richards

    as Otto Kron - Convict
  • Kenneth MacDonald

    as Anson, Prison Guard
  • Ernie Adams

    as Sam - Hospital Prison Orderly
  • Frederick Burton

    as Governor Prentiss
  • Edward Earle

    as Dr. Nichols
  • Richard Fiske

    as Mandish
  • George McKay

    as Reardon
  • John Tyrrell

    as Sanders
  • Jack Cheatham

    as Patrolman Olson
  • Charles Trowbridge

    as Judge Braden
  • Bert Moorhouse

    as Cousel at Defense Table
  • Sam Harris

    as Courtroom Spectator
  • Edmund Mortimer

    as Courtroom Spectator
  • Stanley Brown

    as Prison Gate Guard
  • Eddie Laughton

    as Guard
  • James T. Mack

    as Butler
  • Gohr Van Vleck

    as Police Dispatcher
Writing Robert Hardy Andrews Screenplay
Writing Karl Brown Story
Writing Robert Hardy Andrews Story
Directing Nick Grindé Director
Art Lionel Banks Art Direction
Editing Charles Nelson Editor
Camera Benjamin H. Kline Director of Photography
Production Wallace MacDonald Producer
Sound Morris Stoloff Music Director
Costume & Make-Up Clay Campbell Makeup Artist

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