• Rating:
• Genre: Horror
• Movie Type: Sci-Fi Horror, Horror Comedy
• Themes: Race Relations, Mad Scientists, Renegade Body Parts
• Director: Lee Frost
• Main Cast: Jane Kellem, Rod Steele, Ray Milland, Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall
• Release Year: 1972
• Country: US
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

The good campy fun in this sci-fi horror movie really begins when the head of a racist mad scientist (Ray Milland) is sewn onto the shoulders of a large black convict (Rosie Grier) and the two heads begin fighting--literally trying to punch each other out--to control their shared body. The whole mess begins because the brain surgeon suffers from terminal cancer. He reasons that he will survive if he can transplant his head onto the shoulders of another. He and his team begin experimenting. First he has his head sewn to a gorilla (featuring a simian created by fledgling make-up artist Rick Baker). Something goes terribly wrong, he goes into a coma and when he wakes up, he finds himself having a permanent tete-a-tete with the wrongfully convicted Grier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Ray Milland - Maxwell Kirshner
• Roosevelt Grier - Jack Moss
• Don Marshall - Dr. Fred Williams
• Jane Kellem - Miss Mullen
• Rod Steele - Medical Salesman

Richard James Baker - Gorilla
Kathy Baumann - Nurse Patricia
John Bliss - Donald
Chelsea Brown - Lila
Jerry Butler
George E. Carey
Tommy Cook - Chaplain
John Dullaghan - Thomas
Roger Gentry - Police Sergeant
Phil Hoover - Policeman
Roger Perry - Dr. Philip Desmond
William Smith - Hysterical Condemned Man
Dick Whittington - TV Newscaster
Wes Bishop - Dr. Smith
Lee Frost - Sgt. Hacker
Albert Zugsmith - Guest Performer
Bruce Kimball - Police Lieutenant
Michael Viner - Prison Guard
Britt Nilsson - Nurse

Credit

David Angel - Songwriter; Rick Baker - Makeup Special Effects; Wes Bishop - Producer; Wes Bishop - Screenwriter; Wes Bishop - Short Story Author; Thomas R. Burman - Makeup; Edward J. Forsyth - Editor; Lee Frost - Director; Lee Frost - Screenwriter; Jonathan Lawrence - Producer; Paul Nuckles - Stunts; Robert O. Ragland - Composer (Music Score); Charles Schram - Makeup; Dan Striepeke - Makeup; James Gordon White - Makeup; James Gordon White - Screenwriter; Porter Jordan - Songwriter; Jack Steely - Cinematographer; Clark Will - Sound/Sound Designer

Similar Movies

The Defiant Ones; Heart Condition; The Watermelon Man; The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant; Dr. Black and Mr. White; Re-Animator

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