Donovan's Brain

September. 30,1953      
Rating:
5.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Lew Ayres as  Dr. Patrick J. Cory
Nancy Davis 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
Harlan Warde as  Treasury Agent Brooke
Shimen Ruskin as  Tailor

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