The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942) on Netflix
Passed19421h 5mComedyCrimeHorrorMystery
Three men bury a body at night, watched by Anna Wolff. Wolff's daughter Catherine, newly married to Roger Blake, is fired at in her room and calls in detective Michael Shayne.
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Plot summary
Late at night, Dudley Wolff, his secretary Alfred Dunning and Dr. Haggard bury a body in the estate cemetery, watched by Anna Wolff. Wolff's daughter Catherine returns home with news that she has married Roger Blake, a match her father believes is aimed at his money. Wolff tells the others that Catherine must not learn what happened that night. A stranger enters Catherine's room while she sleeps and fires a gun, and her father and stepmother insist she dreamed it. When the grave is opened, the body is gone. Catherine hires private detective Michael Shayne, whom she has used before, and since her father dislikes detectives, she passes him off as her husband.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)
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- Clayton Rawson's source novel featured his magician-sleuth the Great Merlini, but the film switched the lead to private detective Michael Shayne, created by Brett Halliday, keeping Merlini only as a minor character.
- Herbert I. Leeds's film reused the set from the 1939 Basil Rathbone version of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
