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 co-production (also released as Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder)
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Directed by | Freddie Francis |
Written by | Robert Banks Stewart Philip Mackie |
Based on | Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak |
Produced by | Artur Brauner Raymond Stross |
Starring | Anne Heywood Peter van Eyck Cecil Parker Bernard Lee |
Cinematography | Robert Huke |
Edited by | Oswald Hafenrichter |
Music by | Kenneth V. Jones |
Production company | Central Cinema Company/ Raymond Stross Productions |
Distributed by | British Lion/Columbia (UK) Europa-Filmverleih AG (West Germany) Governor Films (US, 1964) |
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Running time | 84 minutes (UK/Germany) 83 minutes (US) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Brain differs from earlier film versions of the Curt Siodmak 1942 novel Donovan's Brain: in this adaptation, the dead man seeks his own murderer through contact with the doctor keeping his brain alive.
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Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain | |
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