The Man in Half Moon Street

This is kind of a Dorian Gray without the portrait.

Silent film hunk Nils Asther plays a 120-year-old man who is kept youthful by having glands from a younger man implanted surgically. He falls in love with a young woman (Helen Walker) and has asked his surgeon to come and operate on him as it's more important than ever that he stay youthful. When his surgeon (Reinhold Schunzel) is delayed in getting to him, he takes a potent to tide him over.

When his surgeon arrives, there are complications, particularly due to the suspicions of a doctor friend (Paul Cavanaugh) of his fiance's family.

Interesting film, low budget. Asther was very handsome and a good actor. Schunzel did well as a weak old man.

In this film, Helen Walker, who usually played tough noir women, is an ingenue. She was a wonderful actress who should have hit stardom. Unfortunately, she gave a ride to soldiers after World War II, which was quite common, and was in a horrible accident. It not only caused her injury but killed one soldier. She was put on trial and acquitted, but her career was over.

A good watch about man fiddling with the laws of nature.