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The Thing That Couldn't Die is a american film of genre Horror released in USA on 27 june 1958 with William Reynolds
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)
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Add to a movie listThe Thing that Couldn't Die is a 1958 American black-and-white horror film from an original screenplay by David Duncan for Universal-International, produced and directed by Will Cowan.
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A young woman named Jessica Burns (Carolyn Kearney), who claims to have psychic powers, lives on a remote ranch with her Aunt Flavia (Peggy Converse). She discovers an ancient box while water-witching and her Aunt takes it back to their house. Her boyfriend, Gordon (William Reynolds), goes for an archaeologist, arguing the box should be kept intact for appraisal and opening by an expert. However, the Aunt's greedy ranch foreman, anticipating treasure, secretly convinces the slow-witted handyman to break it open. Instead, the box contains the intact head of Gideon Drew (Robin Hughes), a man executed for sorcery 400 years earlier. The head awakens and telepathically takes over the mentally vulnerable handyman.Actors
William Reynolds
(Gordon Hawthorne)
Robin Hughes
(Gideon Drew)
Jeffrey Stone
(Hank Huston)
James Anderson
(Boyd Abercrombie)
Forrest Lewis
(Julian Ash)
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