Donovan's Brain

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Donovan's Brain is a 1953 film, starring future First Lady of the United States Nancy Reagan (then Nancy Davis), based on the 1942 horror novel Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak. The story revolves around an attempt to keep alive the brain of millionaire megalomaniac W.H. Donovan after an otherwise fatal plane crash. Donovan's Brain is referenced in the Steve Martin movie The Man With Two Brains (1983)
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  • 1953

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  • 83 min (50 hs )

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Felix E. Feist

Felix E. Feist (February 28, 1910 - September 2, 1965) was a film and television director born in New York City. Feist was the son of an MGM sales manager, and was educated at Columbia University. He is probably best remembered today for Deluge (1933), for writing and directing the film noirs The...

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  • This Brain Has Some Ideas of Its Own!
  • A dead man's brain in a hidden laboratory told him to - KILL... KILL... KILL...KILL... KILL... KILL... KILL... KILL... KILL... KILL...

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Donovan's Brain

Donovan's Brain is a 1942 science fiction novel by Curt Siodmak. The novel has become somewhat of a cult classic, with fans including Stephen King. King discusses the novel in his own book Danse Macabre and the line Cory uses to resist Donovan is repeated to similar effect in his horror novel, It....
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