ThiefHott Too much of everything

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Cortechba Overrated

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Greedy and unscrupulous financial investment/banker Karl Brussard, George Coulouris, learns from his doctor Phil Merritt, Robert Hutton, that he has a terminal brain tumor that will end up killing him within a year. Refusing to accept the enviable Brussard seeing that he's experimenting with the brains of dead monkeys and bringing them, the live monkeys that he's experimenting with, back to life Brussard convinces Dr. Merritt to do the same for him. The rub in all this is that in Dr. Merritt's mind is that doing the same experiments with a human being is unethical and even worse, for Brussard, who's brain does he want to replace that of his his own? Thinking big in the brain he wants to have Brussard goes to France to check out the mausoleum when the great seer and philosopher Nostradamus, Michael Gordon, is in-terned in. Brussard plans to have his head surgically removed and have it brought back to life by the very reluctant, in not knowing who's head it is, Dr. Merritt. It's the sneaky Brussard who's planing to use Nostradamus' brain to predict future stock markets moves and thus profit from them. But the great Nostradamus knowing what a creep that Brussard is has plans of his own that in the end , by Brussard flowing his bad advice, will end up bankrupting him!You don't quite understand, unless he's insane, Brussard's plans to become the richest man in the world by using Nostradamus' future stock predictions to do it since he hasn't long to live anyway to enjoy it? As Brussard is losing his money in the fake stock predictions that Nostradamus is giving him he's slowly losing his life from the terminal brain tumor that's killing him. With both his money and life on the verge of expiring Brussard really loses it and in an attempt to get back at Nostradamus tries to kidnap his head and destroy it!***SPOILERS*** This total insane action on Brussard's part has the head, that's Nostradamus, re-unite with the body, that of someone else, and keep the by now completely out of it Karl Brussard from his attempt to destroy it! By the time the movie is finally over Nostradamus loses his head for the second time but unlike the first this time it really counted. That by him putting and end to Brussard's crazy plans to rule the world of finance by using his head to do it!

Scott_Mercer It's been a little while now, maybe a few months, since I saw this obscure title thanks to Netflix. I've been searching out goofball old movies like this for some years, and even I had not heard of this one, that's how obscure it is.I had seen a few films previously by the director, W. Lee Wilder, the much less talented brother of Billy Wilder. These included Phantom From Space and The Snow Creature, both of which I thought had a lovable, shaggy-mutt quality of boisterous genre thrills on a rock bottom budget. But still, those films, as ridiculous and low-rent as they were, made some kind of sense.This film makes hardly any sense AT ALL.Too many weirdnesses in the story and strange plot holes to even begin listing them. But the overall effect is like Ed Wood at his most hallucinatory. The movie feels like a sweat-drenched fever dream glimpsed obliquely through an oppressive cloak of madness draped over and blocking out the everyday world you and I inhabit. When a filmmaker, or any kind of artist, can achieve an effect like that on his audience, well, this is an artist that one cannot just dismiss wholesale. As ludicrous as this film is, it will make you sit up and take notice, even if it is only to groan "What am I LOOKING AT????" If you are an Ed Wood fan, and you appreciate his type of skewed reverie, this is a must-view. Even for those casually interested based on this review and the others listed here, I would encourage you to check it out. May not be a life-changing experience, but it is a loopy, way-out way to spend 80 minutes of your life.

MartinHafer George Coulouris was well cast in this film, as he almost always played morally bankrupt and selfish roles. Here, he plays a dying rich man--and he is determined to do anything to stay alive despite his brain tumor. His quest leads him to a scientist (Robert Hutton) who is doing weird experiments with monkeys. He's able to actually keep their heads alive using all sorts of machinery--and inexplicably, Coulouris likes this as a way to stay alive (yuck). And the researchers even seem to be able to revive heads that have been dead for some time--and Coulouris has the idea of reviving some of the great minds of history in order to put his consciousness into them or take advantage of them or I dunno--and I saw the film! Confusing? Yep...this is no ordinary transplantation film.It's amazing when you think about it, but this is actually a VERY familiar plot! It's about the 10th film I've seen involving scientists with disembodied heads and most, incidentally, involve rich guys wanting to cheat death! "Donovan's Brain", "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant" and "The Frozen Dead" are just a few of the films like "The Man Without a Body" I can think of just off the top of my head--but there are plenty more. A few of these films are pretty good and most are pretty dumb. So what about this particular film--is it among the good head-transplant films or the bad? Considering that it's really not clear EXACTLY what Coulouris or the doctors' plans are with this bizarre technology, that's one strike against the film already. I much more straight forward head transplantation plot would have probably worked a lot better than this confusing plot. Also, not having Nostradamus' head come SOMEWHAT to life and talk would have been a good thing--it came off as pretty dumb--even for a transplant film. In fact, aside from a good premise, the whole film just seemed muddled and like a wasted opportunity. Why Coulouris ran amok near the end was beyond me and the ending was really, really dumb. As a result, the film ranks among the lower echelon of disembodied head films (a dubious distinction indeed).By the way, why did they pick a lady for the film who barely spoke intelligible English? Someone thought the Hungarian lady in the fame was a good idea. It wasn't.

telegonus This is an engagingly nonsensical film about a businessman with a brain tumor, the head of Nostradamus, and a number of other issues; it is extremely well photographed and designed, resembling a spy movie more than a science fiction or horror film. There's a kind of shabby cosmopolitanism to the picture. As it features the excellent George Coulouris in the lead, as well as several other decent actors, it has a way of seeming on occasion better than it is. It just goes to show what talented people can do with a lousy script.