Brain Saved..

THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN-1963-Vic is sent to find out about Dr. Bernard by the CID but his boss seems in league with the enemy. Bernard was working on something called G gas. Vic meets his new partner, Tony Gordon. They have a little argument over her being a woman then go out to interview people. Don't get too attached to them. Within 20 minutes, both are killed.

Enter secret agent Phil Say (Walter Stocker) and wife Kathy (Audrey Caire) who go looking for Prof. Coleman (John Holland) and his daughter Suzanne (Dani Lynn) in the fictional country of Mandoras. They meet a guy named Padua (Carlos Rivas; later in TRUE GRIT (1968) who tells in flashback how his brother (also Rivas) worked for "Mr. H" and did experiments trying to prolong his life. Now Hitler is somewhere in the country. Well, not all of him. Just his head! It's all a plan by neo-Nazis to take over the world. 

Fortunately, Phil gets help from the local police chief (Nestor Paiva) and his excellency, the president of Mandoras (Pedro Regas). This is pretty nutty with "Der Fuhrer" head being toted around in a glass jar. Occasionally he barks orders. 

The first 20 minutes or so was filmed by a UCLA film crew for a distributor who needed a longer cut for TV. The actors in that film received no credit. This was the last film directed by David Bradley whose previous efforts included 12 TO THE MOON (1960) and the 1950 version of JULIUS CAESER (in which he played Brutus to Charlton Heston's Mark Anthony). The director of cinemaphotography was Stanley Cortez, who in better days shot THE MAGNIFENT AMBERSONS, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and THREE FACES OF EVE. 

                                              

                                             Nestor Paiva was not fussy about his movie roles!

                                                                    Padula tells all!

  

                                         

                       A second chance to rot in hell!

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