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Donovan's Brain

Release Date:September 30, 1953

Running Time:83 min

Genres:Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction

Director

Cast

Lew Ayres Nancy Reagan Gene Evans Steve Brodie Tom Powers Lisa Howard James Anderson Victor Sutherland Michael Colgan Peter Adams Harlan Warde Shimen Ruskin

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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