The Lady and the Monster

1944

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 10%
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 617 617

remake brain mind control experiment based on novel or book blackmail

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Plot summary

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

Director

George Sherman Photo
George Sherman

Top cast

Edward Keane Photo
Edward Keane as Manning
Janet Martin Photo
Janet Martin as Cafe Singer
Sidney Blackmer Photo
Sidney Blackmer as Eugene Fulton
Helen Talbot Photo
Helen Talbot as Bit Role
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790.47 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 3
1.43 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Simon T 4 / 10

Unbelievably turgid 40s horror noir with a dreadful

Unbelievably turgid 40s horror noir with a dreadful performance in the leading female role, excellent cinematography and production design, a relentless musical underscore, and a wonderfully ripe villain in Erich von Stroheim. The plot is something to do with a disembodied brain controlling the hero's search for justice or something. It's so impenetrable and slow that one quickly loses the will to live.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

Second version of this as a brain is

second version of this as a brain is kept alive after the wealthy finacer dies only to begin to inhabit the scientist who is keeping it alive. another version is called "the brain' and "donovan's brain"
Reviewed by TheCapsuleCritic 7 / 10

Earlier Version Of DONOVAN'S BRAIN Is Just As Engaging.

After his career as a director ended in 1933 with the re-shot and heavily re-edited HELLO SISTER, Erich von Stroheim turned exclusively to acting where he was still much in demand. He had some good roles in the 1930s most notably in Jean Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION but by the early 1940s he was typecast as Nazi villains in movies like THE NORTH STAR (1943). One year later he returned to playing a mad doctor as he had done in THE CRIME OF DR. CRESPI back in 1935. The movie was THE LADY AND THE MONSTER and it was made for the same studio, Republic Pictures.The story by Curt Siodmak , who wrote and directed 1940s monster movies for Universal, concerns the brain of a dead millionaire which is kept alive after a plane crash by a crippled scientist and his young couple assistants. Slowly the brain takes over the personality of the male assistant who is then compelled to carry out the dead man's evil plans. Instead of trying to stop it, von Stroheim keeps the brain alive "in the name of science" allowing its influence to grow. When it begins to threaten the female assistant, something must be done before it's too late.Erich von Stroheim is his usual imperious self as the crippled scientist. Richard Arlen (WINGS, ISLAND OF LOST SOULS) plays the assistant who gets taken over while perennial Republic Pictures leading lady Vera Ralston is the endangered heroine. The film is beautifully photographed by Noir specialist John Alton and successfully directed by George Sherman. Although later remade as the better known DONOVAN'S BRAIN (1953) with Lew Ayers and Nancy Davis (later Reagen), this version is just as engaging. Seven years later von Stroheim would play the butler in SUNSET BOULEVARD...For more reviews visit The Capsule Critic.
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