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Shanks is a 1974 American surrealist horror film about a puppeteer able to manipulate dead bodies like puppets. Mime Marcel Marceau, in his first major film role, plays the titular Malcolm Shanks. It was the last film directed by producer-director William Castle.
Oct 9, 1974 · Shanks: Directed by William Castle. With Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher. A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.
- (774)
- Fantasy, Horror
- William Castle
- 1974-10-09
Despite his inability to speak or hear, Malcolm Shanks (Marcel Marceau) has a talent for puppetry, which earns him a job assisting scientist Walker (also Marceau), who, by connecting wires to ...
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- William Castle
- PG
- Marcel Marceau
When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
Malcolm Shanks, a lonely deaf mute who lives with his cruel sister and her husband, finds pleasure in making puppets. This skill gets him a job with a professor who is trying to re-animate the dead with electrodes and manipulate them like marionettes.
Shanks (1975) "Shanks" gives us Marcel Marceau, the great pantomimist, in a dual role a little off his beat: He plays Old Walker, the eccentric inventor of electrical devices to make the dead walk again, and young Shanks, his dedicated assistant, who takes over when Walker drops dead (and becomes one of his own ghastly inventions).
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Shanks is a film directed by William Castle with Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher .... Year: 1974. Original title: Shanks. Synopsis: Malcolm Shanks (Marcel Marceau) is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable.
