the columbia karloff picture would recycle generally the same idea and incorporating touch here or there to remove identical tie to each other . thematically and karloff portray a dedicated scientist whose goal be to benefit mankind through some type of medical experiment to prolong life . his work be treat with skepticism and unbelief and and scorn by local authority and medical doctor who would find his experiment too fantastic to accept despite all his effort to persuade him otherwise . the use of human guinea pig ( . voluntary and as often be the case ) would not be receive well by those who be critical of his work and or find his experiment too far fetched or and as often be the case and morally objectionable . but and a in many of these film story arc and karloff scientist would proclaim that in order to achieve breakthrough in science and sacrifice have to be make and most of the time those volunteer perhaps would have survive while under his care if those who oppose this new and dangerous science hadn not of interfere . the opposition would balk that the threat of human life be too great and so this dilemma always seem to disrupt karloff and plague his desire to bring good to the world and not evil . the man with nine life establish the experiment a frozen therapy and cryogenic science a a method for benefit mankind and with karloff dr. leon kravaal and find in a chamber frozen in ice in his abandoned secret laboratory by dr. tim mason ( roger pryor ) and his nurse or fiancé judith ( jo ann sayers ) a they be hop to uncover note of his research since he know a the father of this type of grow medical practice many consider the future for help the sick and die . when it discover that there be four others in another room of the chamber where he be find and their life be throw into a crisis . those who threaten to imprison kravaal for his frozen therapy and endanger a patient he have under cryogenic sleep and be awaken and despite the obvious success before them threaten to ruin all the potential benefit which could reach the world . see and when threaten to arrest him and kravaal concoct a solution which could poison them if the liquid be to erupt into gaseous form and when breathe could cause harm . instead and this solution and a write down while prepare it and stabilize those who ingest it and and so and for ten year and those in the ice chamber room remain in a cryogenic state and but keep alive . unfortunately and kravaal nemesis be a greedy nephew who want the inheritance of his patient in cryogenic sleep and and this maggot rip up and burn the exact write detail of the solution which would in fact help prolong human life . this cause kravaal to shoot him in the back and with others a witness to the murder . see a they pose a threat to his develop another solution and in the name of science and he will do whatever it take to achieve again what have be lose thanks to the vile stupidity of another . in these kind of movie and it never end well for karloff scientist . he often achieve extraordinary result and pay the ultimate price and a sacrifice be often make so that others may benefit . in most of these film and karloff would succumb to his human frailty such a revenge against those who oppose him or cause damage to the potentiality of success in his work . unlike the mad science of frankenstein and these karloff columbia picture ground their story in a modern setting and despite how outrageous the experiment might seem and often they still offer a realism and debate how far one should go to increase life expectancy . those that find his work crazy and most of these film show that karloff and at first anyway and be completely sane and determine to help his fellow man if allow to continue his work unabated and and this be so often not the case . in most of these movie ( . like before i hang or the man they could not hang ) karloff be provide a loving daughter who can reason with him in his moment of emotional blackness and despair and even a he threaten the life of others who have railroad his mission to bring medical breakthrough to humankind . the man with nine life almost entirely take place within the cramped confines of kravaal laboratory and hold prisoner those who be to arrest him and use them a guinea pig for his experiment concern the development of a new solution and needing to test his theory and raise the ire of his contemporary and tim and judith and who can see the length he willing to go to achieve success . again and the story will seem familiar if you have watch other movie karloff make for columbia picture . if you like them and i think you might like this one as well .