Blackenstein (1973)

Directors

William A. Levey

Cast

John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe de Sue, Roosevelt Jackson, Andrea King, Nick Bolin, Karin Lind, Yvonne Robinson

The story

Big and burly African American soldier Eddie Turner stepped on a land mine while serving in Vietnam and lost both arms and both legs. His physicist fiancé Doctor Winifred Walker thinks she has found help for him in her white former teacher and colleague Doctor Stein who has recently won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "solving the DNA genetic code". In a tour of Doctor Stein's castle-like Los Angeles home, Winifred is introduced to his other patients: the 90-year-old Eleanor who looks to be only 50 thanks to Stein's treatments, and the bald Bruno whose lower legs have been successfully re-attached via "laser beam fusion" and…

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