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Released March 01, 1962
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
20th Century-Fox
58 min. (Feature Film)

Dr. Alex Marsh (John Agar) is secretly conducting experiments with nerve gas, hoping to create a weapon for the government. He creates a dangerous compound that theoretically will only paralyze, and then leave the subjects in an extended hypnotic state. But a laboratory accident causes his body to absorb a deadly, gaseous version of the chemical, leaving him with an instantly lethal touch that causes human flesh to mummify into a blackened mass. His body quickly assumes the bloated, mummy appearance of his victims, and in his physical pain and mental fear & paranoia, he becomes a fugitive in the streets of Los Angeles leaving victims in his wake.

Joe Besser appears as a gas station attendant who has a deadly encounter with Dr. Marsh.

The young boy who encounters Marsh is a pre-MUNSTERS Butch Patrick.

Filmed in CinemaScope.

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Avg. Rating: [7.00/10]
 
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John Agar
Alex Marsh

Paula Raymond
Carol Wilson

Stephen Dunne
Tom Holland

Roy Gordon
Dr. Ramsey

Joe Besser
Service station attendant

Ruth Terry
Woman with packages

Norman Burton
Police Lieutenant

Jack Donner
Detective

Kevin Enright
Police photographer

Chuck Niles
Reporter

Fred Krone
Cab driver

Bob Whitney
Policeman


Gene Nelson
Director

Eugene Ling
Producer

Eugene Ling
Screenplay

Floyd Crosby
Director of Photography

Carl Pierson
Film Editor

Jodie Copelan
Supervising Film Editor

Harry Reif
Set Decoration

Arthur Cornall
Sound Editor

Sonny Burke
Music Composer and Conductor

Bob Mark
Makeup

Willard Kirkham
Assistant Director

Harold E. Knox
Production Supervisor

Ygnacio Sepulvada
Property Master

Winifred Gibson
Script Supervisor


















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