The Man Who Could Cheat Death

“His hideous obsession led him to commit ghastly crimes of passion and violence.”

Dr. Georges Bonner (Anton Diffring) looks about forty and moves through Paris society like a man with all the time in the world, because he is 104 years old. His secret depends on periodic gland transplants taken from younger, healthier victims, and suspicion is starting to gather around him. Terence Fisher films the wealthy drawing rooms and the surgeon's hidden laboratory in the same polished Hammer colour, so the decadence and the dread share a frame.