ALL SCI-FI

[Eadie]

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Over at Les échos d’Altaïr blogsite http://morbius.unblog.fr/ I learned of a sci-fi movie we don't have a thread for, Life Returns (1935).

Details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Returns and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025391/

Full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuFzTjxcVOA (1 hour 29 minutes 47 seconds).
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Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable.

[Bud Brewster]

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Thanks, Eadie! I haven't watched this yet, but I'm looking forward to it! .

_______ Life Returns (SciFi Movie in Full Length)


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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IMDB has several interesting trivia items for this production.
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~ Uses footage from actual University of Southern California experiment in which scientists claimed they brought a dead dog back to life. Robert E. Cornish, playing himself in the film, was one of the scientists involved.

Note from me: Modern medicine can resuscitate patients who are "clinically dead" and bring them back to life if the person hasn't sustained significant brain damage — in which case they are pronounced "legally dead".

What Dr. Robert E. Cornish was doing, according this article was nothing more than reviving brain-dead dogs with methods that have been greatly approved today.

~ The story opens with a signed affidavit as follows:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The actual experiment of bringing the dead back to life, which is part of the motion picture "Life Returns", was performed by myself and staff on May 22, 1934 at 11:45 P.M. in Berkeley, California.

This part of the picture was originally taken to retain a permanent scientific record of our experiment. Everything shown is absolutely real. The animal was unquestionably and actually dead, and was brought back to life.

May I offer my thanks to my assistants, Mario Margutti, William Black, Ralph Celmer and Roderic Kneder, who are shown carrying out their respective parts. Respectfully submitted, Dr. Robert E. Cornish.

Note from me: As I said above, doctors can resuscitate animals and patients long after they've sustained brain damage. But doing so only revives the body, not the brain of the organism.

~ The author, Eugene Frenke (husband of actress Anna Sten), sued Universal for $145,424 claiming that the studio failed to release the picture through normal channels.

Note from me: I'm not sure what this means. What are "normal channels", and how are films released in other ways?

~ Banned in England during its initial release and never subsequently shown there

Note from me: I wonder what the Brit's objection was to this film's portrayal of a dead dog being restored to life for the young boy who loved him? Seems kinda nutty to me.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)