The Body Snatcher (1957)
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
Director: Fernando Méndez
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Wolf Ruvinskis as Guillermo Santana |
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Carlos Riquelme as The Mad Scientist, alias Don Panchito |
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Crox Alvarado as Capt. Carlos Robles |
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Columba Domínguez as Lucía |
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Eduardo Alcaraz as Police Chief |
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Yerye Beirute as Cosme Ramírez, first henchman |
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Ignacio Navarro as Second Henchman |
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Arturo Martínez as Felipe Dorantes, wrestling promoter |
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Alberto Catalá as Rubio, wrestling trainer |
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Guillermo Hernández as El Lobo negro |
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Lee Morgan as |
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Alejandro Cruz as El Tigre |
| Directing | Fernando Méndez | Director |
| Writing | Fernando Méndez | Writer |
| Writing | Alejandro Verbitzky | Writer |
| Writing | Fernando Méndez | Adaptation |
| Writing | Alejandro Verbitzky | Adaptation |
| Directing | Américo Fernández | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Jorge Busto | Editor |
| Sound | Federico Ruiz | Music |
| Camera | Víctor Herrera | Director of Photography |