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Indestructible Man (1956)

Name: Indestructible Man
Genre: Science Fiction
Released: 1956
Duration: 1 h 11 min
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Marjorie Bennett, Roy Engel, Joe Flynn, Ross Elliott

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Indestructible Man (1956) is a 71-minute science-fiction film that airs free on Starlite TV's Rocket Age (CH 5) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Jack Pollexfen.

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About Indestructible Man (1956)

Indestructible Man is a 1956 American crime horror science fiction film, an original screenplay by Vy Russell and Sue Dwiggins for producer-director Jack Pollexfen and starring Lon Chaney Jr., Ross Elliott, and Robert Shayne.

Told in a narrative noir style mostly on Los Angeles location, popularized by the television police series Dragnet, by police detective Dick Chasen, the story concerns a 72-hour period of horror for the city of Los Angeles. Charles "Butcher" Benton is a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer who was executed in the gas chamber. His body is unlawfully sold to a scientist who plans to move his experiments into the cause and cure of cancer to human subjects by rejuvenating damaged human tissue.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Indestructible Man (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Jack Pollexfen
Cast includes: Lon Chaney Jr., Marjorie Bennett, Roy Engel, Joe Flynn, Ross Elliott, Robert Foulk, Ken Terrell, Max Showalter
Country: United States

Credits from Wikidata · Wikipedia article

Airs on

Graveyard Shift - CH 4, Horror TV
Rocket Age - CH 5, Sci-Fi TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources).
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Source: Internet Archive

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