Movie review – “The Indestructible Man” (1956) **

Lon Chaney Jnr has a terrific face to convey anguish and pain – flabby, world-weary, innocent eyes – so he makes great casting in this variation of the Frankenstein story. He’s a criminal who is killed in the chair only to be revived by a doctor looking for a cure; he then goes looking for revenge. It’s a decent idea for a film (it’s actually a remake of an earlier Chaney movie) but the handling is uninspired as are Chaney’s adventures. There is a novelty of an inappropriately smug and sleazy male romantic lead.