The Man Who Returned to Life
1940 film by Lew Landers
- February 5, 1942 (1942-02-05)
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The Man Who Returned to Life is a 1942 American black-and-white drama film directed by Lew Landers, written by Gordon Rigby and released by Columbia Pictures.
Plot
David Jameson lives in a rural town in Maryland. He is forced to flee after he is suspected of murdering Beth Beebe, who tried to force him to marry her although he was engaged to another woman, Daphne Turner. He flees from town and takes on a new identity as George Bishop, marries Jane Meadows, and gets a comfortable job. Years later a skeleton is found on the Jameson farm. Believed to be the remains of Jameson, Beth's brother, Clyde Beebe, is charged with the murder and sentenced to die. David returns to his home town in an attempt to exonerate Clyde.[1]
Cast
- John Howard as David Hampton Jameson / George Bishop
- Lucile Fairbanks as Jane Meadows Bishop
- Ruth Ford as Beth Beebe
- Marcella Martin as Daphne Turner
- Roger Clark as Harland Walker
- Elisabeth Risdon as Minerva Sunday
- Paul Guilfoyle as Clyde Beebe
- Clancy Cooper as Clem Beebe
- Helen MacKellar as Ma Beebe
- Kenneth MacDonald as Officer Fosse
- Carol Coombs as Marjorie Bishop / Angel Face
- Marguerite De La Motte as Mrs. Hibbard
- Lois Collier as Mary Tuller
- Minta Durfee as Mrs. Tuller[2]
References
The movie poster is shown being damaged, removed from a billboard and then pasted over with a circus poster in The Three Stooges short "Three Little Twerps"(1943)
External links
- “The Man Who Returned to Life” (NY Times)
- “The Man Who Returned to Life” (TCM)
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Films directed by Lew Landers
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- The Red Rider (1934)
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- Danger Patrol (1937)
- Flight from Glory (1937)
- The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
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- Condemned Women (1938)
- Law of the Underworld (1938)
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- The Girl and the Gambler (1939)
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