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The Brain is a British film of genre Drama directed by Freddie Francis released in USA on 1 january 1964 with Anne Heywood
The Brain (1962)
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Add to a movie listThe Brain is a 1962 film directed by Freddie Francis, and starring Anne Heywood and Peter van Eyck. A UK-West German production (also released as "Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder")
The Brain differs from earlier film versions of the Curt Siodmak novel Donovan's Brain: in this remake, the dead man seeks his own murderer, through contact with the doctor keeping his brain alive.
Actors
Anne Heywood
(Anna Holt)
Peter van Eyck
(Dr. Peter Corrie)
Cecil Parker
(Stevenson)
Bernard Lee
(Dr. Frank Shears)
Jeremy Spenser
(Martin Holt)
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Rating61%
Invasion From Inner Earth (1974)
, 1h34Directed by Freddie Francis, Bill Rebane
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A group of pilots in the Canadian wilderness begin to hear strange reports over their radios about planes crashing, cars stalling, and a deadly plague which has gripped the planet. As the plot continues, it's clear that Earth is in the midst of an invasion. The pilots barracade themselves in a cabin in the woods and wait for impending doom.
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, 1h23Directed by Freddie Francis
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Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
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Rating41%
The film opens with two men from an unnamed ministry commenting a spate of letters from a beekeeper claiming to have developed a strain of killer bees. They dismiss him as a lunatic, though his letters claim he will start killing people if he is not taken seriously.
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970)
, 1h41Directed by Freddie Francis
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Four individuals live in a secluded manor house in the English countryside, where they engage in an elaborate role-playing fantasy called The Game. In The Game, each individual assumes the role of a member in a "happy" family, completely subsuming his or her individual personality to the point that each individual is known only by the identity he or she is playing: Mumsy (the mother, Ursula Howells), Nanny (the nanny, Pat Heywood), Sonny (the son, played by Howard Trevor), and Girly (the daughter, Vanessa Howard). The Game is built around a set of strictly enforced yet ill-defined rules, the principal one of which is "Rule No. 1: Play the Game.
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Origin United-kingdom
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Rating50%
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, 1h25Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Horror
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Rating45%
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, 1h30Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
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Rating56%
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