Brain, The (1962)

Date: 1962
Director: Freddie Francis
Production Company: Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Raymond Stross Productions

Stars: Anne Heywood, Peter van Eyck, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee
Location(s): Middlesex (Studio)

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Storyline:

A millionaire businessman’s brain is kept alive after a fatal accident and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer.

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Headlights burst into life as financier Max Holt is driven from the home of his mistress Marion Fane. A grainy night time view from a cropped copy of the film.

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The Rolls Royce reaches the airfield where Holt boards his waiting aeroplane. Another darkened view.

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Following an explosion on board, the plane carrying Holt crashes near the Sussex laboratory where Drs. Frank Shears and Peter Corrie are working.

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After Max Holt's funeral, mortuary assistant Furber (Jack MacGowran) tells the millionaire's daughter Anna Holt (Anne Heywood) that he has information about Dr. Corrie.

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Dr. Corrie is driven from the home of Marion Fane after questioning her.

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Looking for Max Holt's former chauffeur, Dr. Corrie heads to the story's Meldrums Yard in Paddington.

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Watched from the shadows, the Doctor knocks on the door of number 9 where Thomas Gabler answers.

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A police car arrives outside Gabler's mews house just after Dr. Corrie returns from taking a phone call to discover that the former chauffeur has been shot dead.

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Policemen follow Dr. Corrie as he makes his escape before being captured by Mr. Immerman's henchmen. Another grainy view of what appears to be waste ground.

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A tilt down begins after cutting to the headquarters of the Holt Organisation.

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Setting out to lunch, Anna Holt is followed from the building by family solicitor Mr. Stevenson.

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Dr. Peter Corrie (Peter van Eyck) watches from behind a newspaper.

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Anna and Stevenson (Cecil Parker) get into the car before the Doctor enters the building.