The Brain (1962 film)

Not to be confused with the 1962 science fiction horror film The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

The Brain
Movie poster
Directed by	Freddie Francis
Produced by	Artur Brauner Raymond Stross
Written by	Robert Banks Stewart Philip Mackie
Based on	Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak
Starring	Anne Heywood Peter van Eyck Cecil Parker Bernard Lee
Music by	Kenneth V. Jones
Cinematography	Robert Huke
Edited by	Oswald Hafenrichter
Production company	Central Cinema Company/ Raymond Stross Productions
Distributed by	British Lion/Columbia (UK) Europa-Filmverleih AG (West Germany) Governor Films (US, 1964)
Release dates	1962 (UK/Germany) 1964 (US)
Running time	84 minutes (UK/Germany) 83 minutes (US)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Brain is a 1962 science fiction thriller film directed by Freddie Francis, and starring Anne Heywood and Peter van Eyck.^[1] A UK-West German production (also released as "Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder")

The Brain differs from earlier film versions of the Curt Siodmak novel Donovan's Brain: in this remake, the dead man seeks his own murderer, through contact with the doctor keeping his brain alive.^[2]

Cast

Anne Heywood as Anna Holt
Peter van Eyck as Dr. Peter Corrie
Cecil Parker as Stevenson
Bernard Lee as Dr. Frank Shears
Jeremy Spenser as Martin Holt
Maxine Audley as Marion Fane
Ellen Schwiers as Ella
Siegfried Lowitz as Mr. Walters
Hans Nielsen as Immerman
Jack MacGowran as Furber
Miles Malleson as Dr. Miller
George A. Cooper as Thomas Gabler
Victor Brooks as Farmer at Crash Site (uncredited)
Allan Cuthbertson as Da Silva (uncredited)
John Junkin as Frederick (uncredited)
Bryan Pringle as Dance-Hall MC (uncredited)
Patsy Rowlands as Young Woman at Dance Hall (uncredited)
Alister Williamson as Inspector Pike (uncredited)

References

External links

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The Brain at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Freddie Francis

Two and Two Make Six (1962)
The Brain (1962)
Paranoiac (1963)
Nightmare (1964)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Traitor's Gate (1964)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Hysteria (1965)
The Skull (1965)
The Psychopath (1966)
The Deadly Bees (1967)
They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Torture Garden (1967)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (1970)
Trog (1970)
The Vampire Happening (1971)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
Son of Dracula (1974)
Craze (1974)
Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
The Ghoul (1975)
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Dark Tower (1987)

Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain

Films	The Lady and the Monster Donovan's Brain The Brain

Sequel	Hauser's Memory

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