Donovan's Brain
September 30, 1953
83 minutes
6.1
Science FictionHorrorThriller

Donovan's Brain

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.

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Cast
Lew Ayres
(Dr. Patrick J. Cory)
Nancy Reagan
(Janice Cory)
Gene Evans
(Dr. Frank Schratt)
Steve Brodie
(Herbie Yocum)
Tom Powers
(Donovan's Washington Advisor)
Lisa Howard
(Chloe Donovan)
James Anderson
(Chief Tuttle)
Victor Sutherland
(Nathaniel Fuller)
Michael Colgan
(Tom Donovan)
Peter Adams
(Mr. Webster)
Harlan Warde
(Treasury Agent Brooke)
Shimen Ruskin
(Tailor)
John Hamilton
(Mr. McNish (uncredited))
Don Brodie
(Detective Who Follows Dr. Cory from Hotel (uncredited))
Stapleton Kent
(W. J. Higgins (uncredited))
Frank McLure
(Man leaving Fuller's Office (uncredited))
William Cottrell
(Dr. Crane (uncredited))
Max Wagner
(Station Agent (uncredited))
Sam Harris
(Man leaving Fuller's Office (uncredited))
Paul Hoffmann
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Mark Lowell
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Walter Merrill
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Charles Sullivan
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Katherine Yorke
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