Catchier title, I guess, than THEY SAVED HITLER’S GALL STONES. Probably far more scary as well.
The World War II Bogeyman lives again in this “alternative classic”. Too bad the actor they got to play Der Fuehrer (Bill Freed) apparently didn’t speak the German language. The most German you hear from him is the occasional “Mach schnell, mach schnell”. Anyone who ever watched “Hogan’s Heroes” could have picked up on that.
My first, non-DVD version of this movie was, as the movie box shown says, from “Le Bad Cinema”. This particular video company must not have lasted long because I remember only seeing a few others in this series out there before smaller video stores either started going belly-up or being eaten up by “Blockbuster”.
On the “Le Bad Cinema” version, there is a disclaimer before the movie starts which VCI Entertainment included stating that they are not responsible for the bad acting and ridiculous plots. I imagine that this warning was part of every movie in the “Le Bad Cinema” series.
One of my favorite things about this is that it’s just supposed to be his head that you see floating around in the jar. However, check out the picture up above – notice his shoulders in the shot, too?
The movie almost has a timeless quality to it from its day/night/back to day shots. Then there’s the fact that it almost looks like two movies have been spliced together. That’s pretty close to being correct, actually.
Originally shot in the late 1950’s when memories of WWII were still fresh in a lot of minds, newer footage was later added on for television (hence the hip hairstyles in the early scenes).
What a history this movie has! Originally released as THE MADMEN OF MANDORAS, it only became THEY SAVED HITLER’S BRAIN after new footage was added and, probably, so that they could sell it to TV.
In St. Louis, this movie was part of a late night Weekend local TV show called “The Canned Film Festival”, hosted by radio DJ Randy Raley. I would have liked to have had a tape of the commentary Mr. Raley provided, but this was in the days before VCRs were a common household fixture. I met Mr. Raley many years later and asked him about “The Canned Film Festival”. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any tapes of his own program to share with me.
Sorry, I haven’t the wherewithal to even attempt to rate this one. See it and judge for yourself.
The World War II Bogeyman lives again in this “alternative classic”. Too bad the actor they got to play Der Fuehrer (Bill Freed) apparently didn’t speak the German language. The most German you hear from him is the occasional “Mach schnell, mach schnell”. Anyone who ever watched “Hogan’s Heroes” could have picked up on that.
My first, non-DVD version of this movie was, as the movie box shown says, from “Le Bad Cinema”. This particular video company must not have lasted long because I remember only seeing a few others in this series out there before smaller video stores either started going belly-up or being eaten up by “Blockbuster”.
On the “Le Bad Cinema” version, there is a disclaimer before the movie starts which VCI Entertainment included stating that they are not responsible for the bad acting and ridiculous plots. I imagine that this warning was part of every movie in the “Le Bad Cinema” series.
One of my favorite things about this is that it’s just supposed to be his head that you see floating around in the jar. However, check out the picture up above – notice his shoulders in the shot, too?
The movie almost has a timeless quality to it from its day/night/back to day shots. Then there’s the fact that it almost looks like two movies have been spliced together. That’s pretty close to being correct, actually.
Originally shot in the late 1950’s when memories of WWII were still fresh in a lot of minds, newer footage was later added on for television (hence the hip hairstyles in the early scenes).
What a history this movie has! Originally released as THE MADMEN OF MANDORAS, it only became THEY SAVED HITLER’S BRAIN after new footage was added and, probably, so that they could sell it to TV.
In St. Louis, this movie was part of a late night Weekend local TV show called “The Canned Film Festival”, hosted by radio DJ Randy Raley. I would have liked to have had a tape of the commentary Mr. Raley provided, but this was in the days before VCRs were a common household fixture. I met Mr. Raley many years later and asked him about “The Canned Film Festival”. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any tapes of his own program to share with me.
Sorry, I haven’t the wherewithal to even attempt to rate this one. See it and judge for yourself.
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