Donovan's Brain (1953)
19531h 23mScience FictionHorrorThriller
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
Cast
Lew AyresDr. Patrick J. Cory
Nancy ReaganJanice Cory
Gene EvansDr. Frank Schratt
Steve BrodieHerbie Yocum
Tom PowersDonovan's Washington Advisor
Lisa HowardChloe Donovan
James AndersonChief Tuttle
Victor SutherlandNathaniel Fuller
Michael ColganTom Donovan
Peter AdamsMr. Webster- HHarlan WardeTreasury Agent Brooke
Shimen RuskinTailor
John HamiltonMr. McNish (uncredited)
Don BrodieDetective Who Follows Dr. Cory from Hotel (uncredited)- SStapleton KentW. J. Higgins (uncredited)
Frank McLureMan leaving Fuller's Office (uncredited)- WWilliam CottrellDr. Crane (uncredited)
Max WagnerStation Agent (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Felix E. Feist
- Writers
- Felix E. Feist
- Producers
- Tom Gries
- Music
- Eddie Dunstedter
- Cinematography
- Joseph F. Biroc
- Editing
- Herbert L. Strock
Details
- Released
- September 30, 1953
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Dowling Productions, United Artists
- IMDb
- tt0045699