The Man Who Lived Twice
A criminal has plastic surgery done to change his identity. However, during the operation, he loses his memory; when he comes to after the surgery, he has a change of heart and decides to help people…
The Man Who Lived Twice
A criminal has plastic surgery done to change his identity. However, during the operation, he loses his memory; when he comes to after the surgery, he has a change of heart and decides to help people by becoming a doctor. "Slick " Rawley decides to go on the lam after his latest robbery leaving behind his partners Gloves Baker and Peggy Russell. After hearing Dr. Clifford Schuyler's lecture on the possibility of using surgery to turn evil men into good citizens, Rawley volunteers to be his first human guinea pig. The only thing Rawley asks for in return is plastic surgery to change his appearance. After the surgery, Rawley awakens with complete memory loss. He takes the name James Blake, later becoming a medical doctor and an upstanding member of the community. When he is appointed as the doctor at a nearby women's prison, Peggy Russell recognizes his voice and his secret is slowly revealed. His fingerprints eventually give him away where it is now up to the legal system to decide if James Blake should go to jail for the crimes of Slick Rawley. —garykmcd "Slick" Rawley is a vicious and ugly murderer on the run who, while taking refuge in a hospital, overhears a lecture given by a brain surgeon, Doctor Clifford L. Schuyler (Thurston Hall), saying it is possible through brain surgery to eliminate the more violent elements in a man's make-up. After the lecture, Rawley confesses his crimes to Dr. Schuyler and persuades the doctor to perform an operation on him which will change both his violent nature and physical appearance. The operation is a success, aside from a memory loss, and under Schuyler's guidance, Rawley, now known as James Blake with no knowledge of his vicious past, becomes an eminent medical scientist and outstanding citizen of the community. But his unchanged voice (and fingerprints) give him away to the authorities whereupon Blake finds himself standing trial for the crimes of "Slick" Rawley. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
The Man Who Lived Twice
Crime,Drama
Film Details
A criminal has plastic surgery done to change his identity. However, during the operation, he loses his memory; when he comes to after the surgery, he has a change of heart and decides to help people by becoming a doctor. "Slick " Rawley decides to go on the lam after his latest robbery leaving behind his partners Gloves Baker and Peggy Russell.
After hearing Dr. Clifford Schuyler's lecture on the possibility of using surgery to turn evil men into good citizens, Rawley volunteers to be his first human guinea pig. The only thing Rawley asks for in return is plastic surgery to change his appearance.
After the surgery, Rawley awakens with complete memory loss. He takes the name James Blake, later becoming a medical doctor and an upstanding member of the community. When he is appointed as the doctor at a nearby women's prison, Peggy Russell recognizes his voice and his secret is slowly revealed.
His fingerprints eventually give him away where it is now up to the legal system to decide if James Blake should go to jail for the crimes of Slick Rawley. —garykmcd "Slick" Rawley is a vicious and ugly murderer on the run who, while taking refuge in a hospital, overhears a lecture given by a brain surgeon, Doctor Clifford L. Schuyler (Thurston Hall), saying it is possible through brain surgery to eliminate the more violent elements in a man's make-up.
After the lecture, Rawley confesses his crimes to Dr. Schuyler and persuades the doctor to perform an operation on him which will change both his violent nature and physical appearance. The operation is a success, aside from a memory loss, and under Schuyler's guidance, Rawley, now known as James Blake with no knowledge of his vicious past, becomes an eminent medical scientist and outstanding citizen of the community.
But his unchanged voice (and fingerprints) give him away to the authorities whereupon Blake finds himself standing trial for the crimes of "Slick" Rawley. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>.