ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Indestructible Man, 1956. "Butcher" Benton goes to his death in the state prison. He's cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up; his two gang pals with Paul Lowe, his attorney and leader of the gang. He vows to return and kill them. Butcher is executed without revealing the location of the stolen money. Detective Chasen is determined to keep working on the case until the stolen loot is recovered. Benton's body is taken to Professor Bradshaw and his assistant (Joe 'Mcales Navy' Flynn) for post-death experimentation. They manage to restore him to life, making him practically indestructible in huge amounts of energy. Butcher takes off after the three men, getting rid of everybody who stands in his way. He is impervious to police bullets. He kills gang pals Ellis and Marcelli. Now lawyer Lowe seeks police protection. Benton takes to the Los Angeles sewers to recover the hidden loot and the police are powerless to stop him. Drama film finish goes underground then.*Special Stars- Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showwalter, Marion Carr, Robery Shayne, Roy Engel, Joe Flynn. *Theme- Man sometimes should not tamper with nature and death.*Trivia/location/goofs- All of Chaney's dialog was in the first scene due to his reportedly extremely heavy alcohol use during lunch break. Locations: The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in Los Angeles, California. The building was built in 1893 and is located at 304 South Broadway (3rd and Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles. Angeles Flight was in Los Angeles downtown only a block away. Delores Hamburger Drive-in was another landmark of the area.*Emotion- A enjoyable film mainly due to Lon Chaney Jr film presence at his career's end. Wonderfully 'noir' and sci-fi at the same time. There are many levels of drama and parallels to recent modern film's to satisfy the knowledgeable film fan.*Based On- Frankenstein legends.

Scarecrow-88 A scientist, working on a cure for cancer, uses a machine which sends electric bolts into the confiscated corpse of executed armored car robber Butcher Benton (Lon Chaney, Jr). Benton knows the whereabouts of $600,000 stolen from the car, hidden away from three people who helped orchestrate the job, a sleazy lawyer named Paul Lowe (Ross Elliot, laying on the slime, quite a heel), and two partners, crippled "torch man" Joe Marcelli (Ken Terrell) and "Squeamy" Ellis (Marvin Ellis). These three, out of revenge for Benton's hiding the loot, turned state's evidence against him, which led to the Butcher's arrest. Meanwhile, Detective Richard Chasen (Max Showalter), while reassigned to a different case, continues to work on the armored car heist off-duty hours. A beautiful blond burlesque dancer, Eva Martin (Marian Carr), knew Benton, and doesn't have a clue that an envelope from the Butcher (stolen by Lowe) contained a map to where the loot is kept in the sewers below Los Angeles. Butcher, thanks to the mad science which sent thousands of volts into his body, multiplying his cells and shocking his heart back to life, has been given superhuman strength and an ability to withstand bullets fired from the guns of police who dare to attempt to arrest him. A vow of revenge against the trio who sent him to prison, Benton will go after Lowe, Marcelli, and Ellis. Chasen, the Los Angeles Police department, and Eva will try to stop him from causing carnage and death as the body count rises when those who enter his trajectory often wind up quashed. INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN is a C-grade vehicle with Lon Chaney's name is big letters, milking his horror icon status for all its worth. Max Showalter's narration doesn't just draw us a map, but an architectural layout of the plot. The director features so many close-ups of Chaney's face—particularly his eyes—it's borderline embarrassing. But, jowls, haggard look, wrinkled face, the sign of alcoholism and living up to his father's fame, I felt, actually adds a little extra to his characters. He is still burly and towering, with quite a presence, imposing his stature over those who are unfortunately in the way. The conclusion features not only a chase through a sewer system, but quite a fireworks show when Benton attempts to *recharge his batteries* using the electricity of a power plant. Butcher also gets his hands on two of those who wronged him, lifting them up in the air and hurling them to their doom. But, the film, when Chaney is absent, is standard crime drama fare. Carr, quite a bombshell, who becomes a romantic love interest for the film's hero, Dick Chasen, isn't exactly the world's greatest actress, but is certainly eye candy. Chaney's so powerful he can incapacitate two grown man with choke holds, knock a door of its hinges with a shoulder block, lift a car up off the ground, take a missile launcher blast to the chest, and a blow torch to the face! Chaney's only dialogue comes at the beginning when he warns Lowe that he will kill him. He mostly lumbers about, a look of madness in his eyes, heart full of hate, murderous intent on the brain. While the movie didn't do a lot for me personally, Chaney's presence in the film supplied enough entertainment to watch it all the way through to the end.

ebiros2 I think I've seen this first time on the "Chiller Theater" in New york. As a kid I didn't understand the plot of this movie, but Lon Chaney's acting caught my attention. Now I look at this picture and I see the "adult" theme in this with sexy burlesque girl as his girlfriend. The picture is great. It's low budget, but acting is pretty good, and the plot is also good and original.Charles "Butcher" Benton (Lon Chaney Jr.) is a convicted killer, and is executed, but a scientist brings him back to life using high voltage. His body becomes indestructible in the process, but burns his vocal chord and makes him mute. He travels back to Los Angeles to have revenge on his former colleagues who's trying to steal the money he's hidden.This movie gets low ratings for production, but high ratings for its entertainment value as many '50s sci-fi movies do. This to me is one of Lon Chaney's best movies.Good '50s classic with interesting and original plot.

bkoganbing Lon Chaney, Jr. stars in this most low budget science fiction/noir thriller about a man who comes back from the dead with no voice and more of a one track mind that Moose Malloy in Murder My Sweet. His lawyer Ross Elliott masterminded an armored car robbery in which the guards were killed and Chaney and two accomplices got away with over $600,000.00 dollars of which only Chaney knows where it's hid. The two accomplices turn state's evidence and pin the whole thing on Chaney at Elliott's direction. Some way, some how, Chaney's going to get these rats. When scientists Robert Shayne and Joe Flynn make an under the table deal for the body, they shoot it with electricity, Frankenstein style, and Chaney comes to life, even though his vocal cords have burned to a cinder and has no voice. His skin and bones have become almost like Superman, he's truly an Indestructible Man.The film is narrated by Max Showalter the detective on the original armored car heist. He can't believe it, but it's true, Chaney's back from the dead and leaving a murderous trail behind him. Bullets bounce off him just like Superman, even a flame thrower just burns him, and a bazooka only slows him down a bit.There are two female roles of importance, Marian Carr as Chaney's girl friend as described by the papers and her best friend and fellow stripper Peggy Maley who always has a good wisecrack in any film she's ever in.You can't rate the film all that high, the production values are almost non-existent. But Indestructible Man is not all that bad as a thriller. Chaney is mesmerizing and frightening in a performance that has no dialog except at the very beginning of the film. The final chase scene through the sewers is borrowed liberally from The Third Man.If you're going to borrow, do it from the best and Indestructible Man while it will never win any awards, isn't anything the cast and crew have to be ashamed of.