The Brain

The Brain (1962)

The pounding of the afterbrain signals vengeance and death!!

After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy.

Date of release
1962-09-05
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Science Fiction, Crime, Horror
Director
Freddie Francis

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Donovan's Brain

The Brain, also known as Vengeance and Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder, is a 1962 UK-West German co-production science fiction thriller film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Anne Heywood and Peter van Eyck. It was written by Robert Banks Stewart and Philip Mackie adapted from the 1942 Curt Siodmak novel Donovan's Brain. In this film, differing from earlier adaptations, the dead man Max Holt seeks his murderer through hypnotic contact with the doctor Peter Corrie keeping his brain alive. It was one in a series of films produced Raymond Stross starring his wife Heywood.

Production

The film had two producers, Artur Brauner and Raymond Stross. Stross' involvement was conditional upon Anne Heywood starring in the movie. Francis recalled Stross "had told Artur Brauner that Anne Heywood was the biggest female name in Britain. This is one of the things that happens in this business. Somebody who is really so bright can still be fooled."

The movie's original title was Over My Dead Body.

According to Francis, a week before filming Brauner told Stross he wanted a German actor to play the killer rather than Stross's choice. So two versions of the film were made, one with Heywood as the killer, another with a different actor as the killer. Francis had the continuity person, Pamela Davis, rewrite the script accordingly. Francis also says Peter Van Eyck disliked Heywood and refused to come on set at the same time as her.

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