They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968 TV Movie)
2/10
They Saved Hitler's Brain!
19 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Or….the movie that will not end! The filmmakers were certainly ambitious with such a plot yielding non-stop developments despite a budget of peanuts. If you though a nagging bitch's head in a jar in "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" was absurd, wait until you see Hitler's head in a jar snarling and making weird smiles! I'll try my best to keep it short in regards to a synopsis. A gas and its anecdote are known by only one man since a geneticist was blown up with the formula documents in a car…that is a scientist named Professor John Coleman (John Holland). During WWII, the German Third Reich surgically removed Hitler's head, keeping it alive in a case connected to a machine! Held prisoner by a third world Latin American town named Moricano, this will be the location where the fate of mankind hangs in the balance! Coleman's daughter and her beau (Audrey Caire and Walter Stocker, pretty dull heroes to follow for a movie's remaining hour) will search for him in Moricano as a number of characters emerge to either help or harm them. The premise has characters introduced, only to be killed off not long after, such as two "CID" agents (in place of CIA, I guess) put on a case regarding the geneticist killed but they accidentally stumble onto members of their agency's nefarious scheme to help the Reich gain access to Coleman so he will give them the gas to let loose on the US in a goal to conquer the world. After they are dispatched in relatively short order, the meat and potatoes of the plot is focused on: how Stocker and Caire assist Moricano's finest in a plan to stop the Underground Nazis in the town from releasing the gas. This does sound like an entertaining vehicle, and if you take into account the whole "Hitler Head in a Jar" development, it should seem like a can't-miss tale of espionage and intrigue, told in a fun B-movie way. But, this turns out to be a talky, unexciting affair with a plot that is just a mess that fails to deliver anything in the way of real thrills. I would love to know some talented filmmakers were involved in remaking this, because there is a wacky, nutty film I imagine that could be gleaned from the bits and parts of this boring exercise in futility.

Carlos Rivas is Camino Padua, the son of Maricona's El Presidente (Pedro Regas), who wants to help stop Hitler and his Nazi followers (who look like a bunch of American midwesterners from around the block). Nestor Paiva is Police Chief Alaniz, who may or may not be aligned with the German scoundrels. Dani Lynn is Caire's spirited, excitable sister, Suzanne, who has a weird kiss with Stocker at a club table. A Texan salesman even gets involved, his son part of the Nazi group out to control the world! I could go on and on, but it is tiresome considering the waste of time this movie was overall.
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