Shanks

1h 33min

Fantasy

Horror

Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. 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.

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

William Castle Productions

Cast

Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

Malcolm Shanks / Old Walker
Tsilla Chelton

Tsilla Chelton

Mrs. Barton
Philippe Clay

Philippe Clay

Mr. Barton
Larry Bishop

Larry Bishop

Napoleon
Don Calfa

Don Calfa

Einstein
Phil Adams

Phil Adams

Beethoven

Release date

9th Oct 1974

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English