mlraymond Review of The Man Without a Body

The Man Without a Body (1957)

Unbelievably bad taste Fifties shocker defies analysis

[2/10 · 24 December 2006]

I have only seen this movie once, in the early Seventies. It was on a Friday night horror show program, and I have never seen it since. All I really remember are a few scenes, including one of obnoxious millionaire George Couloris being told his mistress is threatening to kill herself, and he basically says he's too busy to be bothered with it. I remember the grave robbing scenes, but the one image that really sticks with me is a couple of scientists conversing with the head of Nostradamus, and the head nodding and expressing interest in all the new developments of the Twentieth Century. It seemed to me at the time a terrible movie, which has, perhaps not surprisingly, disappeared from circulation.