The Man Without a Body

The Man Without a Body (1957)

A diabolical dream come true! Who is his Next Victim?

Learning that he has a brain tumor, wealthy businessman Karl Brussard seeks medical help, finding a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. Brussard steals the head of Nostradamus from the prophet's crypt.

Date of release
1957-05-01
TMDB
4.2 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
W. Lee Wilder, Charles Saunders

Casting

Interesting facts

The Man Without a Body is a low budget 1957 British second feature horror film, produced by Guido Coen and directed by Charles Saunders and W. Lee Wilder. It stars Robert Hutton, George Coulouris, Julia Arnall and Nadja Regin. A wealthy American man with a brain tumour plans to replace his brain with that of Nostradamus.

Production

The film was partly financed from the National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC). The directing credit was shared between Wilder and Saunders to ensure funding from the Eady levy, which was paid by distributors to film-makers in order to assure that British actors and production people would be employed, although in reality Wilder did most of the directing.

The Man Without a Body was filmed in 1956. Outside-the-studio locations around London included the interior of Madame Tussaud's wax museum. It is the only film credited to Filmways Ltd.

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