Movie Cosmos - The Brain

Description:

A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer.

Top Cast >

Anne Heywood

As Anna Holt

Peter van Eyck

As Dr. Peter Corrie

Cecil Parker

As Stevenson

Bernard Lee

As Dr. Frank Shears

Ellen Schwiers

As Ella

Siegfried Lowitz

As Mr. Walters

Hans Nielsen

As Immerman

Jeremy Spenser

As Martin Holt

Maxine Audley

As Marion Fane

Jack MacGowran

As Furber

Miles Malleson

As Dr. Miller

George A. Cooper

As Thomas Gabler

Dieter Borsche

As Dr. Miller

Ann Sears

As Stevenson's secretary

Irene Richmond

As Mrs. Gabler

Allan Cuthbertson

As Da Silva

Bandana Das Gupta

As Miss Soong

Alister Williamson

As Inspector Pike

Patsy Rowlands

As Young Woman at Dance Hall (uncredited)

Bryan Pringle

As Dance Hall MC (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Freddie Francis

Director

Reviews:

John Chard (6/10)

Instrument of Terror!

An adaptation of film noir legend Curt Siodmak's novel, Donovan's Brain, The Brain offers up a murder mystery narrative to go with the mad science angle. It's not particularly thrilling but it does tick along nicely and director Freddie Francis has a keen eye for scene staging. Cast features Peter Van Eyck, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker and Bernard Lee, and they all do what is required to make the material work. Stand out moments involve some delightfully monstrous paintings, a lie detector scene and all the sequences where Van Eyck is possessed by the brain of the powerful industrialist who was murdered by person or persons unknown. Good and safe "B" schlocky fare for the so inclined. 6/10

2014-10-16