Man With Two Lives 

(1942)

65 minutes

Drama / Thriller
 
Directed by Phil Rosen 

Cast:

Edward Norris as Philip Bennett
Marlo Dwyer as Helen Lengel
Eleanor Lawson as Louise Hammond
Frederick Burton as Hobart Bennett
Addison Richards as Lt. Detective George Bradley
Edward Keane as Dr. Richard Clark
Hugh Sothern as Professor Toller
Tom Seidel as Reginald 'Reg' Bennett
Elliott Sullivan as Eric
Anthony Warde as Hugo
Ernie Adams as Gimpy
Kenne Duncan as Jess Fowler
George Dobbs as Tim Martin
Lois Landon as Aunt Margaret
Frances Richards as Nurse
Jack Buckley as Mitch Larsen
Jack Ingram as Ed Sporady
George Kirby as The Bennett Butler
 
On his way to be married, Phillip Bennet apparently dies in a car accident. However, Dr. Clarke is brought in to the hospital to try to bring Phillip back to life, as he had done in his previous experiments. At the same time, the vicious murdering criminal Panino is being put to death by electrocution. Unwilling to let go of his life, Panino's soul possesses the body of Phillip, just as the doctor brings Phillip back to life. Phillip/Panino goes through a period of amnesia, where he does not remember anyone in Phillip's life, but soon regains the memories to take up his old life of crime with his old gang. A crime wave and gang war erupts under Phillip's new leadership, and Phillip's father and Dr. Clarke go to investigate what has gone wrong with Phillip. Can the two reach the real Phillip before the police destroy the gang in a final gun battle?