Review:
So there is this professor wo suffers serious brain damage in an accident. His best friend, a doctor, performs a brain transplantation, using a criminal as organ donor. Indeed, the professor recovers, and it takes a while until the criminal’s personality takes over more and more often. Good thing too, the doctor thinks, because he wants to get the gangster’s lost money.
Makes you wonder: why is the doctor surprised when the man with the criminal’s brain starts acting like the criminal? Everybody who watches the movie must be surprised that the professor remained pretty much himself at first. Another thing that I don’t understand is the casting. In the first place it was planned that Karloff would be the professor and Lugosi the doctor. But then Karloff was the doctor and Lugosi played a gangster with precious little screen time.
Pity. While I do appreciate the old-fashioned b&w screen gems I must say that this is not one of them. It’s a wasted chance.
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Arkham TV 