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Donovan's Brain

6.1 83 mins Science Fiction   Horror   Thriller   1953
Dowling Productions   United Artists  
Director(s): Felix E. Feist

Release Date: 30 Wed, Sep 1953

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.

Casts of Donovan's Brain

Lew Ayres

as Dr. Patrick J. Cory

Nancy Reagan

as Janice Cory

Gene Evans

as Dr. Frank Schratt

Steve Brodie

as Herbie Yocum

Tom Powers

as Donovan's Washington Advisor

Lisa Howard

as Chloe Donovan

James Anderson

as Chief Tuttle

Victor Sutherland

as Nathaniel Fuller

Michael Colgan

as Tom Donovan

Peter Adams

as Mr. Webster

Harlan Warde

as Treasury Agent Brooke

Shimen Ruskin

as Tailor

John Hamilton

as Mr. McNish (uncredited)

Don Brodie

as Detective Who Follows Dr. Cory from Hotel (uncredited)

Stapleton Kent

as W. J. Higgins (uncredited)

Frank McLure

as Man leaving Fuller's Office (uncredited)

William Cottrell

as Dr. Crane (uncredited)

Max Wagner

as Station Agent (uncredited)

Sam Harris

as Man leaving Fuller's Office (uncredited)

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