Main Cast: Walter Stocker, Audrey Caire, Carlos Rivas, John Holland, Dani Lynn
Release Year: 1966
Country: US
Run Time: 91 minutes
Plot
After his head is surgically removed and sustained, Hitler is, essentially, still alive and living on an island in the Caribbean. When a young woman and her husband goes in search of her scientist-father and sister, they find a group of Nazis--still under the command of Der Fuhrer--who plan to resume their atrocities upon humanity in a scheme of world domination. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
F. Paul Sylos - Art Director, David Bradley - Director, Leon Selditz - Editor, Donald Hulette - Composer (Music Score), Maurice Seiderman - Makeup, Stanley Cortez - Cinematographer, Carl Edwards - Producer, Steve Bennett - Short Story Author
They Saved Hitler's Brain is a 1966 science fiction film that was adapted for television from a shorter theatrical feature film, Madmen of Mandoras, directed by David Bradley. The film was lengthened with about twenty minutes additional footage shot by UCLA students at the request of the distributor. As the original footage was shot several years earlier, the differences in costumes and production values are rather obvious.
World War II is over, and Nazi officials remove Adolf Hitler's living head and hide it in the fictional South American country of Mandoras, so that they can resurrect the Third Reich for the future. It fast forwards into the 1960s, and the surviving officials kidnap a scientist in an attempt to keep Hitler alive. Various intelligence agencies, aware of the evil plot, recruit secret agents to bust the Nazi officials.
The episode "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" features Abe Simpson remembering a moment during World War II when he had Hitler in his sights. He had muttered "Heh heh heh, now they'll never save your brain, Hitler" but the shot went astray through the clumsy intervention of fellow Hellfish squad member Montgomery Burns.
In the episode "Marge Be Not Proud", one of the games in the store "Try-N-Save" is titled "Save Hitler's Brain."
In the episode "Duffless", one of the items on the conveyor belt is Hitler's head in a jar.
Simpsons Comics referenced the title in the story "They Saved Homer's Brain" in 1996.
In other media
Upon learning he was dying of radiation poisoning due to the constant exposure from his kryptonite ring, Lex Luthor stages his own death and has his brain preserved in a jar while wired to a computer, while a new body is cloned for him. He then re-emerges as his alleged illegitimate son Alexander Luthor, Jr..
In the episode "A Clone of My Own" of the series Futurama, Farnsworth references this movie by saying "Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far."
Unnatural Axe's 1982 song "They Saved Hitler's Brain," besides having the same title, contains direct references to scenes in the film.
The Angry Samoans song, "They Saved Hitler's Cock," is an obvious reference to the film's title.
In Flaming Carrot Comics, The Flaming Carrot is menaced by an army of disembodied clones of Hitler's jackbooted feet.
"Weird Al" Yankovic has a song called Midnight Star (on the "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D album) that mentions "keeping Hitler's brain alive inside a jar."
The Dead Kennedy's Song "We Have a Bigger Problem Now" references Hitler's brain in a jar. The supposed formaldehyde used to preserve Hitler's brain is an ingredient of a fictional cocktail drink along with Jack Daniels and purple Kool-Aid.
In the comic book series Savage Dragon, Hitler's brain was attached to a gorilla body to become the villain Brainape. After being separated from the gorilla, the brain forms legs and runs away.
An episode of the US cartoon Duckman was entitled "They craved Duckman's brain", based on the premise that Duckman, after falling asleep in an active CAT scanner, developed an isotope in his brain that could cure cancer, but getting to it would kill Duckman.
In honor of the film, the area of the Cracked.com forums set aside for serious discussion is ironically titled "We Saved Hitler's Brain."
