Indestructible Man (1956) [Crime] [Horror] [Science Fiction] 

The new stuff is really creepy.

Im 15 and I love these as well. Lol

@@aikugos4886 it's surprising that you enjoy these too. Most of us old folks think the young enjoyed the billion dollar CGI blockbusters. It's pleasant to hear you're versatile.

I’m your age and we have turned into our grandparents! I love them too!

71 here . . . me too . . . my late mother introduced me to Lon Chaney Jr.

Good storytelling and great dialog to show the viewer the characters traits and individual acting sense. Here you are drawn to the LC character in a sympathetic way. I started rooting for him to obliterate the lives of the stoolies and the corrupt lawyer. And tossing them around like a wrestler was definitely cool.

Yes the new crap just don't do it 4 me either.

Good comment. The cars today all look the same

Good points all, Wendy. Food for further thought.

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Every TV has color adjustments.....Every movie is B&W if it's set that way.

You can make any movie black and white - just turn the color saturation on your TV all the way down.

LoL i'm 75 too, and many of these oldies are great entertainment. A bit off the subject, but do you remember 'fractured flickers'? Check it out. Funnier'n heck.😂😂😂

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮 Ross Elliott Always GROSSED me OUT, no matter what show or movie he was in - especially in I Love Lucy. He also played the director role in a few of the Lucy episodes where Ricky was playing the main role in his movie-making stint in Hollywood. And he played Ricky's talent agent in New York a few times. I don't know why, but Ross always struck me as too much the "wolf" or the opportunist... he's very unappealing. Totally grossed me out in this flick too. 😅🤢

Good comment, I'm about to be 64 and these really bring in the good memories...

Same here !!! I love these vintage movie channels. This was impossible a few short years ago.

And RU-vid places too many ads these days.

Ha Hmv

I remember Saturday night Gregory the Grave Walker...

Yes, there was some good things back then, but it also was so whitewashed and “censored” that a lot of it was so bland it was boring. Want a good story? Read a book.

RU-vid shadow ban is getting tiresome.

me too. i'm home again

@@danmaodi3940 I'm just old

NYMArts how old are you

I'm 36 and I watch these over any new movie that comes out today.

It's called "Cozy TV." Nothin' "cozy" about Lon Chaney!!! hahaha!

Try looking for "THE WHISTLER" & "THE SHADOW" on RU-vid. They were Great Radio Shows & maybe some t.v. shows.

And the 30s and 40s

LON JR. SURE HAD SOME BIG SHOES TO FILL, BUT JR. DID IT WITH THE GRACE AND STYLE OF HIS FATHER

he really was a great talent!

Urah Vassell Gregg Turkington anyone?

Love this!

Hopefully, Chaney's cinematic genius will never be forgotten.

I'm 60 and remember watching these types of movies as well as L. Chaney, C. Chan, B. Karloff etc as a child, Bella Lagasse as a teenager and now.😉

@@Lanie-sl9ne That's Emeril Lagasse and he wasn't old enough to appear in those movies. He was born in 1959. Was Bella his parent?

​@@joepangean6770 . I think he meant Bela Lugosi .

@marieannwalsh662 I think Lon Chaney Jr won, or at least was nominated, for a supporting actor Oscar for his role in The Defiant Ones.

How did his life end???

He got a second chance at life, and instead of running and beginning anew he went on a murder spree. I understand how a kid could feel sorry but he deserved no sympathy

His clothes faired better than his face did... 🤔

@@pamelapeer4679 He died a hopeless alcoholic. By the time this movie was being filmed, he could only say spoken lines in the morning. He'd start drinking heavily by lunch.

Sad mr Chaney Handsome as a young man. Wish he had a better life.

Well nobody can carry a 500 pound safe through a sewer by himself these days. Crooks were stronger in 1956. Plus only 1/4 of the money would be recovered with modern cops guarding the stash.

@@donnienicholson6062 Yeah yeah, there are plot holes, there always have been and there always will be but at least the yesteryear movies aimed to entertain, which they did and not be sanctimonious and preachy which is what most of modern trash tries to do with trash stories and acting while thinking that exploiting CGI and visuals alone will make a good movie.

@ Reyshiel Harding. Lon Chaney Jr.'s best performance as Larry Talbot , other than in the original "The Wolfman"(1941), was probably in "House of Dracula"(1945) at the moment when the moon rises after Dr. Edelman operated on Larry Talbot to relieve the pressure on the nerves in Talbot's brain from his skull which was causing his physical transformation into a werewolf. Chaney Jr.'s facial expression as he watches the moon rise changes from fear and apprehension to relief and joy once he realizes that he is cured and no longer has to fear the moon! And his happiness when the nurse runs out to him to hug him about his cured condition is a great moment in not only that film, but also in all of Universal Studios' series of classic horror films!

A year after this movie, Chaney would play Chingachgook opposite John Hart’s Hawkeye in the first television version of “Last of the Mohicans”.

Amazingly He had no lines in this film, yet is the star. He played some bad characters in his later career.

I believe Angel's Flight was restored several years ago and is operable..sadly, quite a rundown area.

Honestly, I think people actually tried harder when they were given less to work with.

+Carlos Acevedo true that

+Carlos Acevedo Please, really, don't blame alcoholism on Hollywood. If abuse caused alcoholism, there would be a lot more alcoholics. Choices cause alcoholic behaviors. Actually, there is no known cause of alcoholism. The best way to avoid it is...to abstain completely. But like weak balloons, character defects appear in the weaker moments of our lives and can cause us to "pop."

+Eastern Alley -Hollywood is not a "victimizer" in any cases where actors get strung out on heroin or alcohol or start using a lot of speed or coke or whatever- it's due to an individual's inability to cope with all the fame and money and attention that comes w/it, in the shape of being scrutinized by the tabloid presses, etc. - and, except for maybe the last part, the fame, glory, money, etc. is what these people usually are after in the 1st place, then, when they achieve it, but can't quite handle it - and, after they've discarded old, long-term friends they've traded in for new, sycophants who stay around to please - as long as the money keeps rolling in - then, when they hit the skids, the money runs out, they're strung out, etc. - they blame Hollywood in general, the fake-friends they chose over the real ones they had before they made it big, etc. - so, when you think about it, in the end, it comes down to choices. Choices about a series of things that they opt to do along the way, and if self-medication is part of a coping mechanism they use to help numb themselves to the pressure or criticism, etc., then, they have to, eventually, reflect on the fact that it was their choices that got them where they end up. Sure, addiction and other problems may pop up as a result of these choices, but no one put a gun to these people's heads and say "pop these pills, shoot this dope, drink this liquor or I'll blow your brains out" -that's silly. It may be considered a "disease" in some quarters, but, at bottom, it's a self-inflicted one, like it or not.

+Kent Manthie why does You Tube always have to arbitrarily, randomly cross out certain portions of my comments? There is no reason to do this!!!! It's very annoying!

+9TheMajor - good for you. It's nice to know that there are some who do finally get to the point in their lives where they really, truly want to get clean and/or sober. Hope you keep on staying sober!!

SHERMAN YOUNG I did not catch the letter mistake when I gave my opinion. Sorry. You know I ment to say the wolfman .

ps ... & oh yes, that Burlesque House @5:30 would be on my "must visit " list.

First beer I ever had was Pabst Blue Ribbon beer!

I always wondered if other viewers noticed that too! lol

Nah that was the camera lens 😂😂😂😂😂

Burl Lampert Pretty cool that you got to know Mr. Pollexfen. I actually have a copy of "Man from Planet X" on VHS! Sometimes i think I was born too late because I really do enjoy these old Grade B classics.

"The Man from Planet X" was produced by Pollexfen but it was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

The detective and the Burlesque girl were eating a hamburger in a 50s Studebaker without a windshield.

I hear ya. I just finished my battle with drug addiction after over 30 years of livin` the hard knock life also afflicted with bi-polar type , ADHD and PTSD........Died and came back 4 times. There must be a reason for all this suffering.

@@rotterdammer5243 Our (I am sure) very, very best wishes to you, R-52, for a most propitious future to come. 👍👍👍 Most of us out here will not have suffered 1/100th of what and as you have, as you describe. It is only natural to expect that there is (as-in must be) greater purpose to it. Onward and upward . . . . .

@@jamesmiller4184 Thanx a bunch, Bud!!!

I am so glad you mentioned him

It was horrifying to me. So was the description of him snapping the man's spine.

It reminded me of the 3 stooges when they used dummies too funny as heck!

@Bill j SO DID I! I USED TO GET SCARED WATCHING THAT HAND!

I grew up in Philly. There was a Double Chiller Theater. It was back to back movies on Saturday night.

I'm from the Bronx. Born in 1961 and I watched it too. WPIX.

@@ismaelnunez3888 Yeah I remember that Chiller Theater hand. As I child I used to think "I sure do not wish to see the person that hand was attached to."

@@ismaelnunez3888 Yep, the hand was scary the way it moved, you knew a good scary movie was about to start.

Lorre, Karloff and Chaney reprised their roles in an Episode of Route 66.

His dad was "man of a thousand faces."

It’s sad. Studio bosses stole all the money and actors were poorly paid. It’s terrible how those who have talent end up poor while the rich steal the fruits of actor’s talents and labors. As bad as it was then it’s worse now throughout industry. The middle class and poor create 100% of everything you see but a handful of rich parasites steal the fruits of other people’s labors. During the pandemic we learned who ‘essential workers’ were. They were people who produced for society. There wasn’t one rich person deemed to be an essential worker. The only demographic that is 100% expendable is the rich. They are all parasites. But sadly, a large number of our society idolize the rich and actually worship unregulated capitalism. They even have been duped into believing capitalism is ‘freedom’ not realizing that system steal from them. Since the 1980s with Reagan’s trickle down con the rich have stolen over $14 TRILLION DOLLARS from the middle class and poor. Do the math. If people had that $14 trillion they could pay gOD college, have 2-3 times what they have in retirement funds and there would be housing for all. But republicans cheer on the rich and tax cuts that only go to the richest. Under Trump the rich were given trillions and when they don’t pay their share we do. People who build and maintain 100% of everything you see are the ones who have to pay extra to make up for the trillions given to the parasitic rich. The same thing happened in the 1980s when Reagan slashed the tax rate from 70% to 35%. That left shortfalls all across the country. States, cities and counties had to raise taxes, licenses countless fees on the poor and middle class. The rich laugh at the dimwits who support republican giveaways to the parasitic rich. Those dimwits cheer when candidates say they will be cutting regulations. They are too stupid to realize by cutting regulations they are putting themselves and other’s lives in danger and allowing money to be stolen by the rich. That’s what happened in the 2007/2008 financial crash. Banking was deregulated in 1998 that caused the crash that destroyed the savings of hundreds of millions. Instead of blaming the GOP for what they did MAGA morons blame everyone but the actual culprits. Republicans are led around by their noses by conmen who use social issues to obscure their attacks on the wallets and bank accounts of the poor and middle class. If republicans ever woke up or started to use their brains everything could be reversed. But since they are led by hatred, bigotry, racism and religious extremism I don’t see republicans ever acting like normal, responsible human beings. They have been duped by conmen into even being enemies of the constitution and the country. They are trying to destroy the country and they actually want to turn the US into an authoritarian theocracy where religious extremists will all try to ‘out Christian’ each other until we have daily public stonings on every town square in the country.

LOWE...What an apt name for a lawyer LOWE

see you have to see it for your self. they give s movie a low rating an it turns out to be good. an so on .

@@g.h.1472 Such great camera ..deserves better skript and actors, but makes a film real good , and atmospheric. sure and a sweet end

"The Bowery Boys"---with Leo Gorcey,Huntz Hall,etc...the program was called, "East Side Comedy".

Or he was just playing the character?

I was thinking the same thing. That, and the guy who had an eleven shot revolver earlier, and the fact that he was still alive after all that destruction to his body… And the police were still chasing him? I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t think I’d be chasing that guy for fear of Catching him! Still a great show, and another fine performance by Lon Chaney.

@ Des Northcott. Yeah it is ludicrous that Charles "Butcher" Benton's clothes aren't burned off by the flame thrower at the end of "Indestructible Man" - but the biggest absurdity in the great film is that the cops fire off a bazooka and a flame thrower in an underground sewer system that, because of the huge amount of methane gas in underground sewer systems, would result in a massive explosion that would not only kill Charles "Butcher" Benton but also all of the pursuing cops as well! And how about the ridiculousness that Det. Dick Chasen fires his service revolver at Benton in the sewer system despite knowing that bullets have no effect whatsoever on Benton!😂 And how is it that the cops didn't lose their hearing from the extremely loud, deafening noise caused by those discharged weapons in a narrow, confined, concrete, underground sewer system????

I never noticed that until you mentioned it, great insight

@ Des Northcott. And how is it that Charles "Butcher" Benton's face can be partially melted by the flame thrower at the end of "Indestructible Man"(1956) and yet his hair is singe-proof!? 😂😂

I remember watching Lon Chaney in his role as the Wolfman on a TV show called Nightmare which aired every Saturday night. This show traumatized me as a little child. Watching this show with my older siblings and watching Mr. Chaney turn into the wolfman, traumatized me even more. For years I wasn't able to watch any of his movies because to me, he was still the Wolfman.😢

-So true. They don't make movie's like this any more. But the thing is they could so Why don't they?

It IS, Rod!! They should start and only in B&W!

@@auggie803 Because the entertainment industry has it own little taboos and standards set by the powers that be. If you try to be different you get weeded out.

Clothes were scared stiff and fireproof.

Sorry, but the Skipper from McHale's Navy was Ernest Borgnine. Joe Flynn played the part of Captain Binghamton.

Well when I was 11 I liked them too. There used to be "scary movie" afternoons on Saturday when I was your age in Denver. My whole family would gather in the family room to watch them. Movies, like this, as well as higher quality horror movies, suspense, and sci fi as well. We would eat smoked oysters, crackers, cheese, fruit and enjoy the films. You are enjoying these films quite possibly because they attempted to tell a story with low budgets and low end effects but tried to make them interesting. If you have not seen them yet, I would recommend "The Day the Earth Stood Still", and "Forbidden Planet". If you are in the mood for something a bit more cheesey but fun and interesting (it was scary in its day), try "Day of the Triffids".

thank you toykingwonder, I will watch the recommendations you gave me, you are really a good person!

The stand the test of time.

The Invisible mans revenge l

Shows you have excellent taste in movies.

Dick was slang for detective. It really is humorous. Dick Tracy wasn't just called that by coincidence either.

@@RockOfLions Whats it slang for today.

Yeah lol. I caught that.

..Dancers~!!!

Remembering those good ol' days too; monster magazines, Saturday afternoon at the movies...

Fruth37 .

Interesting.

Oh! --- That's Rich!!….HAHAHAHAHA!!!

As a kid, I had nightmares for a decade after watching Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter. 🤣

@@sandevieira5674 , I watched Robert Mitchum as the murderous, lecherous nemesis of Gregory Peck in the chiller movie "Cape Fear" when I was 15 in 1970, and haven't slept a wink in 53 years! LOL! 😬😵‍💫😂

@@johnbattles1002 I need to watch that one. Thanks for the tip.👍

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897. That's an excellent observation that famed actor Robert Mitchum would have been very effective as Charles "Butcher" Benton in "Indestructible Man"(1956), but I think Lon Chaney Jr. brought a sympathetic quality to the role that Mitchum would not have been able to! Although Benton is a criminal and killed a guard or two guards in the armoured car holdup, when Benton is attacked by the LAPD officers at the end of the film with a bazooka and flame thrower and, as a result, is horribly disfigured by those weapons, the audience feels somewhat sorry for Benton who commits suicide at the end of the film via self-electrocution.

Lite Touch yes, he was “Ward Cleaver” in the Pilot, Happy Antique Dealer in Mayberry, and the Priest in “10”.

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