Shanks

October. 09,1974      PG
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Marcel Marceau as  Malcolm Shanks / 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
Read Morgan as  Cop
William Castle as  Grocer

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