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(1963 Crown International Pictures) Director: David Bradley Starring:  Audrey Caire, Walter Stocker, Carlos Rivas, John Holland, Marshall Reed

Y'know...every once in a while.......

...I'll give some thought to the fact that I may have finally reached the bottom of the barrell when it comes to cinematic fare. And, then...completely without warning, a film like this one comes into my shallow void I call a life.

While lazing around the house the other day, trying to decide whether or not to do something, I decided to watch some flicks while drinking some beer.  Not an uncommon practice in my home....but this time it was different. The reason?  I came to the awareness of my own mortality. That...and I tried to watch the damn thing and make sense of it while sober. How?  Well, while laying on the couch, I decided I was thristy, got up and went off to the fridge for a frosty barley-pop, and to my dismay discovered supplies were short.  I then contemplated, "Well...I could walk down to the corner grocery and purchase longnecks...but that would involve getting dressed and actually leaving the house."

Never in my life have I ever been too lazy for beer.  Man...am I feeling old.  And, man....did I really need it for this flick. The Plot (I guess it could be called that): "They Saved Hitler's Brain" Was originally a film that was to have been a project of famed director David Bradley.  Bradley began filming sometime in the 1950s (the film's original components had the working titles of The Amazing Mister H and Madmen of Mandoras )...... Bradley, for some odd reason, never finished the film.  Yet, sometime in the early 1960s, some UCLA film students found the footage and finished it with some of their own.  The end result is a feature length mish-mash of film possessing no clear, concise form of continuity (try saying that three times fast), student footage of two "special agents" (yeah...maybe "special education" agents), dressed in nauseating amounts of polyester, and the re-animated head of Mein Fuhrer melting.  Let me repeat that....melting.   At what temperature fahrenheit does human flesh and tissue begin to melt? Bradley's stuff looks gorgeous.  I've always wondered what he was doin' directing what woulda probably turned out to have been yer typical 50s B- science fiction movie.  This is the guy that directed Julius Caeser, for Christ's sake.  More amazing is the fact that award winning cinematographer Stanley Cortez (who shot The Magnificent Ambersons, amongst others) worked on Bradley's footage.

Theatrical one-sheet with alternate title

I'm not even gonna try and provide a decent synopsis of the plot's events.  Why?  Because I was sober while watching, so hence, I am still confused.  I'm lucky I got the title right.  They Saved Hitler's Brain belongs in the category of "Must be Seen to Be Believed."