A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · Science fiction · Thriller
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Film / 1953
Donovan's Brain
Directed by
Felix E. Feist
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
The story
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
Cast
Lew AyresDr. Patrick J. Cory
Nancy ReaganJanice Cory
Gene EvansDr. Frank Schratt
Steve BrodieHerbie Yocum
Tom PowersDonovan's Washington Advisor
Lisa HowardChloe Donovan
James AndersonChief Tuttle
Victor SutherlandNathaniel Fuller
Michael ColganTom Donovan
Peter AdamsMr. Webster
Harlan WardeTreasury Agent Brooke
Shimen RuskinTailor
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John HamiltonMr. McNish (uncredited)
Don BrodieDetective Who Follows Dr. Cory from Hotel (uncredited)
Stapleton KentW. J. Higgins (uncredited)
Frank McLureMan leaving Fuller's Office (uncredited)
William CottrellDr. Crane (uncredited)
Max WagnerStation Agent (uncredited)
Sam HarrisMan leaving Fuller's Office (uncredited)
Paul Hoffmann
Mark Lowell
Walter Merrill
Charles Sullivan
Katherine Yorke
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