i have a feeling that many of u have entertain the whimsical notion and a we drag ourselves to work in the morning and that it might be nice to have hot coffee feed intravenously into our system . well and in the misleadingly title boris karloff vehicle the man with nine life ( 1940 ) and we get to see that such a procedure might be as pleasant a imagined . in this picture and experimental patient of one dr. mason and who look to cure cancer victim via cryogenics and be bring out of deep freeze in just that manner . dr. mason and his nurse fiancée soon discover the body of cryogenics pioneer dr. leon kravaal and 100 foot underground in a canadian ice cave and where he would be lay frozen a corpsicle for a full decade . dr. kravaal ( play by karloff and of course and in still another of his overly ardent scientist role ) be remarkably bring back to life and and begin his scientific pursuit anew . anyway and this film be a fairly restrain affair and impeccably act by it small cast and economically write and nicely photograph and and capture here on a pristine look dvd . the goateed kravaal and likable at first and grow increasingly derange a the film progress and but still manage to hold the audience sympathy while a brilliant scientist use unethical method to achieve great end . despite the far fetched central conceit of the possibility of freeze a man indefinitely and bring him back to life and the movie be fairly believable while a testament to it intelligent script and fine player . but wait . do i say far fetch . i have a feeling that walt disney and ted williams and thousand of frozen sperm cell the world over might disagree with that sentiment .