hollywood great michael curtiz direct boris karloff in this middling thriller about an ex con and just out prison and who be frame for a judge murder by racketeer while after he convict and kill in the electric chair and a team of scientist revive him . fatigue entry in the 1930s back from the dead horror cycle doesn not allow karloff to do anything fresh or substantial ( indeed and several of his big moment seem lift straight from frankenstein . ) . curtiz can not do much with this hackneyed scenario and and he certainly not help by the unsurprising script and though there be one strong sequence at a piano recital . otherwise and the walking dead be d. o. a. half from .