---
title: 'The Brain (1962)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Freddie Francis'
released: '1962-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 84
genres:
  - 'Horror'
  - 'Science Fiction'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-brain-1962'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056601/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Brain (1962)

1962 · 84 min · Horror, Science Fiction · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

The Brain, also known as Vengeance and Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder, is a 1962 UK-West German co-production science fiction thriller film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Anne Heywood and Peter van Eyck. It was written by Robert Banks Stewart and Philip Mackie adapted from the 1942 Curt Siodmak novel Donovan's Brain. In this film, differing from earlier adaptations, the dead man Max Holt seeks his murderer through hypnotic contact with the doctor Peter Corrie keeping his brain alive. It was one in a series of films produced Raymond Stross starring his wife Heywood.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Freddie Francis](https://cinepixo.com/people/freddie-francis)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert Banks Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-banks-stewart)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Kenneth V. Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-v-jones)
- **Producer:** [Artur Brauner](https://cinepixo.com/people/artur-brauner), [Raymond Stross](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-stross)
- **Director of Photography:** [Bob Huke](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-huke)
- **Editor:** [Oswald Hafenrichter](https://cinepixo.com/people/oswald-hafenrichter)

## Cast

- [Peter van Eyck](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-van-eyck)
- [Bernard Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-lee)
- [Ellen Schwiers](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellen-schwiers)
- [Jack MacGowran](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-macgowran)
- [Cecil Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-parker)
- [Siegfried Lowitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/siegfried-lowitz)
- [Anne Heywood](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-heywood)
- [Dieter Borsche](https://cinepixo.com/people/dieter-borsche)
- [Hans Nielsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-nielsen)
- [Maxine Audley](https://cinepixo.com/people/maxine-audley)
- [Allan Cuthbertson](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-cuthbertson)

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