Donovan's Brain [DVD]

Starring: Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis, et al.

Product Description

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 027616862853
• Release Date: January 1953
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
• Director: Felix E. Feist
• Starring: Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis, Steve Brodie, Tom Powers, Lisa Howard (III), James Anderson, Victor Sutherland, Michael Colgan, Peter Adams
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: bw
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Mine is bigger than yours.

This movie has everything that you always like in your 50s sci-fi. Except for the grisly demise of a small monkey to bring the point of the story home, the rest of the film is fun and by today’s standards a tad hokey. As much fun as it is to watch the movie, it is also fun to recognize some of your favorite old-timy actors such as Nancy Reagan, Gene Evans, and Lew Ayres. Dr. Patrick J. Cory, being unethical, gets an opportunity to put Tom Donovan’s brain in a fish tank with electrodes. But as we all know, a man is not supposed to be dallying in God’s realm. He even dabbles in telepathy. So too did the 50s genre. Donovan’s brain has an expanding experience from which nothing good can come. So, can Donovan be stopped, or will he build a monument to his perpetuity? Yes, this has been done better, and it may have a striking similarity to Frankenstein. At one point even feel like Dr. Patrick is going to say, “It is alive!” Yet you will end up being absorbed in the story and sorry to see it end. But wait, you do not have to. You can read Curt Siodmak's novel of the same name.