Shanks (1974)
A new concept in the macabre in which the Good come out of the grave and the Evil are sent to fill the vacancy.
93 min
Malcolm Shanks 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 inserting 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.
- Release date
- October 9, 1974
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Marcel Marceau as Malcolm Shanks
- Marcel Marceau as Old Walker
- Tsilla Chelton as Mrs. Barton
- Philippe Clay as Mr. Barton
- Cindy Eilbacher as Celia
- Helena Kallianiotes as Mata Hari
- Larry Bishop as Napoleon
- Don Calfa as Einstein
- Biff Manard as Goliath
- Mondo as Genghis Khan
- Read Morgan as Policeman
Crew
- William Castle · Director
- Ranald Graham · Writer
- Steven North · Producer
- Alex North · Composer
- Joseph F. Biroc · Cinematographer
- David Berlatsky · Editor
- Boris Leven · Production designer