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Mood:
- SuspensefulScaryTense
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Plot:
- Mad ScientistExperiment Gone AwryCrimesDangerDeadlySupernaturalDisorderPsychological more...
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Genres:
- HorrorSci-Fi
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- USALaboratory
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Based on:
- Based on BookRemake
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Attitudes:
- SeriousFantastic
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Look:
- B&W
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Donovan's Brain, 1953
English
USA
Profile of Donovan's Brain
The mood of Donovan's Brain is suspenseful, tense, and scary. The plot centers around a mad scientist, an experiment gone awry, and supernatural occurences. It is a horror and sci-fi movie. In approach, Donovan's Brain is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, in a laboratory. The setting is the USA. Donovan's Brain happens in the 1950s. Visually, it is black and white. It is a remake and based on a book.
Summary of Donovan's Brain
In this genre-defining film, a scientist preserves the brain of a dead multimillionaire and keeps it alive in his lab. Soon, however, it all goes wrong when the personality of the ruthless industrialist begins to exercise a cold, controlling effect on him. Soon he can not control his own actions as the brain commands him to kill. Based on a novel by Curt Siodmak.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 30 September 1953 |
| Runtime: | 83 min |
Cast and Crew
as Dr. Patrick J. Cory
as Dr. Frank Schratt
as Janice Cory
as Herbie Yocum
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