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Hollywood great Michael Curtiz directs Boris Karloff in this middling thriller about an ex-con, just out prison, who is framed for a judge's murder by racketeers; after he's convicted and killed in the electric chair, a team of scientists revive him.
Kevin is not forgotten (like he was last time) but hops the wrong plane after he puts fresh batteries in the family camera right before he gets to the gate at the airport (his family had all the bad luck with high winds knocking out the electric - and the alarm clock - twice).
Fed electric brownies made from a box (rather than from the most famous recipe in The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook), straight-laced but simmering Harold Fine (sic.!) (Peter Sellers) and perks secretary/fiancée, start giggling even before finishing ingesting brownies.
It's worth it to rent this movie and fast forward to this finale as it is truly electric.
The non-rhetoric tone chosen for the story is Eastwood's true landmark (see also "A perfect world") and I found extremely touchy and delicate the scene where "Doc" finds the corpse of his mate Iggy brutally tortured, he lights up an electric torch but all we see is his own face looking at the dead man, not the corpse.
It's not only radioactive but has an electric charge that sends out the radiation.
Tales from the Darkside: Ring Around the Redhead starts as convicted murderer Billy Malone (John Heard) is about to be led to the electric chair, before he is though a journalist named Adele (Caris Corfman) is allowed to interview him.
The cast of the film perform as one unit....the interplay between the various character parts is at times electric.
As the movie proceeds, it becomes more and more apparent that Nastassja has something called screen presence, meaning that whenever she is on screen there is the promise of something electric occurring that is extraordinary.
Soon Bugs is in stripes, but it's the guard who will find prison life to be hell when Bugs Bunny is around to trick him into a cell, the hangman's noose, an electric chair and even into the warden's office, where Bugs will put a severe strain on the relationship between boss and underling.
If you want to see a truly natural and realistic movie without artificial lighting (except the electric lights already at the monastery) this is for you.
"What's it going to be like when it's midnight all the time and nobody's paid the electric bill?"
The last,and best sequence of the film finds them playing what would be the final public performance of the Beatles,live on the roof of Apple Records for the famous (infamous)free,lunch time concert,which would eventually be shut down by the local Police (also featuring Billy Preston on electric piano).
One of the citizens speaks of the feeling of oppression from living helplessly without electricity because the electric bill is more than a months pay.
The fact of the matter is, they had all the tools at their command to disable that electric fence (or short circuit it).
It's the day of Jenkes execution by electric chair, McCarthy has a front row seat.
He believes evil in it's simplest form is electricity and that Jenke is pure evil, so he thinks Jenke can move from the material plane and become pure concentrated electric evil who will be able to manipulate reality.
She had many physical problems in her last years: fibromyalgia, diabetes, etc. and had the surgery only as a last resort because she'd gotten to the point where we took her places in a wheelchair and she slept in an electric recliner.
Joan convinces him to go to the court and prove his innocence, but based on circumstantial evidence and prejudice of the jury, Eddie is sentenced to the electric chair.
It rocks here in all its xylophone and funky electric organ and horns glory!
Sheriff Berger(Robert Englund)watches a vicious serial killer named Chambers(James Brinkley)die in the electric chair...twice.
I enjoyed this "How to..."romantic/comedy, the chemistry between Kate and Matthew was electric.
The film is about a killer who is hit by lightening while getting sitting in the electric chair and becomes an unstoppable killer after he's taken to the morgue in the hospital.
Scott Bairstow and D.B. Sweeney are electric together and Terry O'Quinn radiates the kind of raw power that no drama school can teach, it's there or it isn't.
Terrible music the score is suppose to accompany the film but the bar brawl 80s electric guitar grates against you're very soul.
To find that man, Alex will first seek out the four men who falsely accused him on the witness stand which led to his death via electric chair.
It was the era of Chicago gangsters and hoodlums, it was the era of Al Capone, it was the era of the electric chair, it was the era of the speakeasy, it was the era of the bootlegger, it was the era of illegal alcohol production, it was the era of prisons.
But the Catholics used a shotgun for this brutal punishment, and the Protestants an electric drill.
Later, while he was in a ferocious confrontation with Thomas Edison, who was threatening Rockefeller’s business with the electric bulb, unrelated technological developments led to the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine and to the idea of putting it on wheels.
The results buck “the conventional wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive,” says Kempton.“For example,” according to Budischak, “using hydrogen for storage, we can run an electric system that today would meet a need of 72 gigawatts, 99.9 % of the time, using 17 GW of solar, 68 GW of offshore wind, and 115 GW of inland wind.”
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