Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
Marcel Marceau
as Malcolm Shanks / Old Walker
Tsilla Chelton
as Mrs. Barton
Philippe Clay
as Mr. Barton
Cindy Eilbacher
as Celia
Biff Manard
as Goliath
Helena Kallianiotes
as Mata Hari
Larry Bishop
as Napoleon
Don Calfa
as Einstein
Phil Adams
as Beethoven
Read Morgan
as Cop
William Castle
as Grocer
