I don't know if the original script was written with Lon Chaney Jr. talking throughout the entire story but there were slight changes made before the movie. Despite Lon's addition to alcohol he was constantly raising awareness to the deaf community in and around Los Angeles. Lon must have felt that playing a mute in this movie would make the picture more enjoyable to the hearing impaired public. Facial gestures and physical emotions Lon learned from his Father a generation ago were incorporated into this science fiction /revenge thriller. Despite the sappy acting of Max Showalter(Casey Adams),the story had a constant flow which kept you interested in the outcome of the Butcher's revenge on his crooked partners.Lon Chaney's performance makes you empathize with his predicament without the spoken word. An alternative style chosen by Chaney Jr. which I'm sure would make his Father proud.

Very low budget B picture with Lon Chaney Jr. Filmed not so much like a horror film, but as a film noir with a twist.It's actually a decent story and is rather well played out, considering the budget.Chaney over acts and does some crazy mugging and sometimes the closeups don't match up.It's almost like an ED direction.Still, it's easy to forgive because you can get into the story.Here's the plot"Butcher" Benton goes to his death in the state prison, cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up; "Squeamy" Ellis, Joe Marcelli and Paul Lowe, his attorney and leader of the gang. He vows to return and kill them and dies without revealing the location of the stolen money. Detective Chasen is determined to keep working on the case until the stolen loot is recovered. Benton's body is taken to Professor Bradshaw and his assistant for experimentation, and they manage to restore him to life, making him practically indestructible in the process. He takes off after the three men, getting rid of everybody who stands in his way. He is impervious to police bullets. He kills Ellis and Marcelli, while Lowe seeks police protection. Benton takes to the sewers to recover the hidden loot and the police are powerless to stop him.

A criminal is left to take all the blame for an armed robbery. His cohorts leave him in the lurch and he is subsequently sent to the electric chair. Before this he swears that he will have vengeance. Well, luckily for him his dead body winds up in a scientists lab where an experimental procedure brings his corpse back to life. He is now The Indestructible Man!This is in many ways an Americanized version of Frankenstein. Although in film terms it is quite unusual in that it merges several genres equally - science fiction and horror were regularly combined in the 50's but it is very rare for them to be also combined with a hard-boiled police procedural narrative. And that is essentially the most notable thing about this movie. Although maybe that's the problem as it isn't really one thing nor another. By spreading itself thin it doesn't really make much of an impact anywhere. Still, it's not terrible and it does have one or two amusing moments.

Lon Chaney, Jr. stars in this most low budget science fiction/noir thriller about a man who comes back from the dead with no voice and more of a one track mind that Moose Malloy in Murder My Sweet. His lawyer Ross Elliott masterminded an armored car robbery in which the guards were killed and Chaney and two accomplices got away with over $600,000.00 dollars of which only Chaney knows where it's hid. The two accomplices turn state's evidence and pin the whole thing on Chaney at Elliott's direction. Some way, some how, Chaney's going to get these rats. When scientists Robert Shayne and Joe Flynn make an under the table deal for the body, they shoot it with electricity, Frankenstein style, and Chaney comes to life, even though his vocal cords have burned to a cinder and has no voice. His skin and bones have become almost like Superman, he's truly an Indestructible Man.The film is narrated by Max Showalter the detective on the original armored car heist. He can't believe it, but it's true, Chaney's back from the dead and leaving a murderous trail behind him. Bullets bounce off him just like Superman, even a flame thrower just burns him, and a bazooka only slows him down a bit.There are two female roles of importance, Marian Carr as Chaney's girl friend as described by the papers and her best friend and fellow stripper Peggy Maley who always has a good wisecrack in any film she's ever in.You can't rate the film all that high, the production values are almost non-existent. But Indestructible Man is not all that bad as a thriller. Chaney is mesmerizing and frightening in a performance that has no dialog except at the very beginning of the film. The final chase scene through the sewers is borrowed liberally from The Third Man.If you're going to borrow, do it from the best and Indestructible Man while it will never win any awards, isn't anything the cast and crew have to be ashamed of.