This movie was broadcast on TCM early on a Saturday morning when they show a lot of short subjects. Recorded it just out of curiousity. Turned out to be a very good movie. Boris Karloff plays a gentle musician who is framed for a murder by a group of gangsters, led by Ricardo Cortez, who also plays the lawyer who defends Karloff and manages to lose the case. After Karloff is executed, his body is quickly retrieved by a doctor (not unlike Dr. Frankenstein) who brings him back to life. He is friendly to all until he meets Ricardo Cortez who he recognizes as an enemy, but doesn't know why. One by one, he confronts the gangsters who die, but not by Karloff's hand, he is just present when they die. At the same time, the gangsters are after Karloff, fearful he knows they framed him. In the meantime, the doctor who brought him back to life is trying to learn from Karloff what happens in death. The final scene takes a religious turn. The last of the gangsters have been killed in an auto accident, and Karloff tells the doctor to leave death to his maker. But he does manage to say death is peace as Karloff's character dies. It was if he was sent back to bring the gangsters to justice and then with the job done, he returns to death.