Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

ferbs54 I did get to have one wacky film experience over the weekend, and that film was the 1956 Lon Chaney, Jr. outing "Indestructible Man." This movie was originally shown as part of a double feature for the kiddies back when, paired with one of my favorite sci-fi shlock adventures ever, "World Without End," for one truly mind-boggling afternoon at the movies. In the film in question, Chaney plays a criminal named Butcher Benton, who, after a botched robbery, has been sentenced to the gas chamber. He is indeed put to death, but soon after, his body is sold to a scientist (Robert Shayne, who most viewers will remember from his role of Inspector Henderson on TV's "Adventures of Superman," and whose work I recently enjoyed in the 1953 film "The Neanderthal Man") who is doing experiments regarding a cancer cure. Benton's body is shot up with drugs and exposed to around 300,000 volts of juice, which treatment manages to actually bring the late con back to life! He also now has fairly impenetrable skin--a hypodermic that the scientist inserts into his arm is promptly bent out of shape--and, as later develops, cannot be killed by bullets...or even by a direct bazooka blast! Benton proceeds to quickly kill the scientist and his assistant (an uncredited Joe Flynn...yes, the future Captain "Leadbottom" Binghamton himself, from TV's "McHale's Navy"!) before hijacking a car to drive from the San Francisco area to L.A., where he intends to kill the two cons and the crooked lawyer who had double-crossed him in his last caper. The story is told in flashback and narrated by the detective on the case, whose name is Dick Chasen. (I wish MY name were Dick Chasen!) He is played by an actor whose face you will recall, and whose name is sometimes given as Casey Adams, and sometimes as Max Showalter; you will probably best recall him from his role in the Marilyn Monroe breakthrough film "Niagara." Ultimately, Dick teams up with Butcher's last galpal, a burlesque dancer played by Marian Carr, who seems to wear nothing but her burlesque outfit wherever she goes, providing the film with some undeniable visual appeal....OK, I'm not gonna lie to you and say that "Indestructible Man" is a quality film, but at 70 minutes, it surely never does wear out its welcome. The film makes excellent use of its L.A. locales--including the famous Bradbury Building, where the Butcher throws one of his enemies to his doom, and the now-extinct Angels Flight funicular--and director Jack Pollexfen (who had directed Shayne in "The Neanderthal Man" and would later helm the sci-fi favorite "The Man From Planet X") shoots his film in a noirish manner, abetted by B&W photography. As for Chaney, he gets very little dialogue in the film, which dialogue is limited to his prison cell, before he is put to death; after he is revivified, his vocal cords have apparently been burnt to cinders by those 300,000 volts, forcing the big lug to limit his acting to grimacing, and squinting up his eyes in a fairly menacing manner. The film features a somewhat disappointing ending, with the Butcher scrambling through the sewers of L.A. as the cops pursue him (reminiscent of the finale in the great 1948 film noir "He Walked By Night, but not nearly as well done) and then, for some reason, climbing atop the works in some kind of power station. In all, a cheezy, cheaply made little potboiler, combining noir and horror elements, whose only real claim on the viewer's attention is the opportunity offered to watch the great Lon Chaney, Jr. mug his way around. And for some, including me, that might just be good enough....

Leofwine_draca A murderer known as The Butcher is betrayed by his lawyer and two friends who want to get thousands of dollars he has hidden somewhere in Los Angeles. However, the betrayal leads to The Butcher's death in the gas chamber. A scientist has the body stolen and brings it back to life in a scene highly reminiscent of FRANKENSTEIN, but without the budget. The Butcher finds that his cell number has increased, which leads to a thickening of his skin, making him indestructible. Filled with rage, he murders the scientist and his assistant and makes for the city. His murder of two policeman soon means that the police are looking for him. His betrayers begin to die, thrown off high ledges as the Butcher extracts his revenge.Lon Chaney Jr. takes centre stage again in this disappointing shocker. The film does have some good elements, mainly the leading actor, but spends far too much time on minor characters. One scene of people talking in a car lasts for over five minutes, or so it seems. However the film is worth watching for a number of elements, such as when Chaney stabs his hand with scissors to no effect, or when a needle put in his arm breaks off. Unfortunately the rest of the cast are unappealing, and as Chaney is a sympathetic murderer, his performance is the only one worth watching. The film is presented in a DRAGNET style, with the voice over explaining the proceedings for us.It's very low budget, but if you like to see what mid-'50s America looked like then this is the horror film to watch. At least it is intelligent for a change, and has some nice special effects, even if they are very simple. I especially liked Chaney's face after he'd been burnt. As a matter of interest, what was with the close ups of Chaney's eyes? Were they supposed to be scary? Frankly, I found his squinting more amusing than terrifying. As a film, this one stinks, but if you're not too hard on it then you'll find yourself enjoying it. My first exposure to Chaney is entertaining but ultimately disappointing.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Indestructible Man, 1956. "Butcher" Benton goes to his death in the state prison. He's cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up; his two gang pals with Paul Lowe, his attorney and leader of the gang. He vows to return and kill them. Butcher is executed without revealing the location of the stolen money. Detective Chasen is determined to keep working on the case until the stolen loot is recovered. Benton's body is taken to Professor Bradshaw and his assistant (Joe 'Mcales Navy' Flynn) for post-death experimentation. They manage to restore him to life, making him practically indestructible in huge amounts of energy. Butcher takes off after the three men, getting rid of everybody who stands in his way. He is impervious to police bullets. He kills gang pals Ellis and Marcelli. Now lawyer Lowe seeks police protection. Benton takes to the Los Angeles sewers to recover the hidden loot and the police are powerless to stop him. Drama film finish goes underground then.*Special Stars- Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showwalter, Marion Carr, Robery Shayne, Roy Engel, Joe Flynn. *Theme- Man sometimes should not tamper with nature and death.*Trivia/location/goofs- All of Chaney's dialog was in the first scene due to his reportedly extremely heavy alcohol use during lunch break. Locations: The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in Los Angeles, California. The building was built in 1893 and is located at 304 South Broadway (3rd and Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles. Angeles Flight was in Los Angeles downtown only a block away. Delores Hamburger Drive-in was another landmark of the area.*Emotion- A enjoyable film mainly due to Lon Chaney Jr film presence at his career's end. Wonderfully 'noir' and sci-fi at the same time. There are many levels of drama and parallels to recent modern film's to satisfy the knowledgeable film fan.*Based On- Frankenstein legends.

bkoganbing Lon Chaney, Jr. stars in this most low budget science fiction/noir thriller about a man who comes back from the dead with no voice and more of a one track mind that Moose Malloy in Murder My Sweet. His lawyer Ross Elliott masterminded an armored car robbery in which the guards were killed and Chaney and two accomplices got away with over $600,000.00 dollars of which only Chaney knows where it's hid. The two accomplices turn state's evidence and pin the whole thing on Chaney at Elliott's direction. Some way, some how, Chaney's going to get these rats. When scientists Robert Shayne and Joe Flynn make an under the table deal for the body, they shoot it with electricity, Frankenstein style, and Chaney comes to life, even though his vocal cords have burned to a cinder and has no voice. His skin and bones have become almost like Superman, he's truly an Indestructible Man.The film is narrated by Max Showalter the detective on the original armored car heist. He can't believe it, but it's true, Chaney's back from the dead and leaving a murderous trail behind him. Bullets bounce off him just like Superman, even a flame thrower just burns him, and a bazooka only slows him down a bit.There are two female roles of importance, Marian Carr as Chaney's girl friend as described by the papers and her best friend and fellow stripper Peggy Maley who always has a good wisecrack in any film she's ever in.You can't rate the film all that high, the production values are almost non-existent. But Indestructible Man is not all that bad as a thriller. Chaney is mesmerizing and frightening in a performance that has no dialog except at the very beginning of the film. The final chase scene through the sewers is borrowed liberally from The Third Man.If you're going to borrow, do it from the best and Indestructible Man while it will never win any awards, isn't anything the cast and crew have to be ashamed of.