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Shanks

4.9 93 mins Fantasy   Horror   1974
Paramount Pictures   William Castle Productions  
Director(s): William Castle

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.

Casts of Shanks

Marcel Marceau

as Malcolm Shanks / Old Walker

Tsilla Chelton

as Mrs. Barton

Philippe Clay

as Mr. Barton

Cindy Eilbacher

as Celia

Biff Manard

as Goliath

Helena Kallianiotes

as Mata Hari

Larry Bishop

as Napoleon

Don Calfa

as Einstein

Phil Adams

as Beethoven

Read Morgan

as Cop

William Castle

as Grocer

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