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Before I Hang

Movie (1940)

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.

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Released:	Sep 17th, 1940
Budget:	N/A
Revenue:	N/A

Before I Hang Main Cast

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Boris Karloff
plays Dr. John Garth

Evelyn Keyes
plays Martha Garth

Bruce Bennett
plays Dr. Paul Ames

Edward Van Sloan
plays Dr. Ralph Howard

Ben Taggart
plays Warden Thompson

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Shooting lasted from June 27-July 12, 1940, released September 17.
Film Daily Year Book (1941) and American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 list the running time as 71 minutes; however, the original review in Variety, 2 October 1940, which followed the film's premiere in Lincoln, Nebraska on 26 September 1940, records it as 62 minutes, which corresponds to the time of the print from Sony shown on Turner Classic Movies in October 2008.
Part of the SON OF SHOCK package of 21 titles released to television in 1958, which followed the original SHOCK THEATER release of 52 features one year earlier. This was also one of the 12 Columbia titles, the other 61 all being Universals.
This film was shot in the house later used in the 1945 title The Picture of Dorian Gray staring Hurd Hatfield.

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