Donovan's Brain
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Actor: Gene Evans, Lew Ayres, Nancy Davis, Steve Brodie, Tom PowersDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Donovan's Brain
Movie Review: Sci Fiction predicts real life!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a masterpiece of prophetic genius. Nancy Davies (later first lady as nancy Reagan)dominates this movie with her opaque, universally middle class presence. Her hunched shoulders, blank expression and obsessively de-sexualized clothing make her the closest image of an American secular nun ever to come on the screen. It is absolutely impossible to imagine her anywhere near a sexual situation in these clothes and the neurotic control of every detail of her make up and outfits is a preview of her image control skills that would so well serve the Reagan administration in projecting a restrained yet efficient pseudo-Imperial elegance.
In this movie she is the wife of a scientist who is charting new ground by keeping a human brain alive after the body has died in an accident. The brain eventually takes over his own will, and I must say that the evil, selfish tax-cheating millionaire is a much more attractive figure than the sappy doctor she married. Although it also, accidentally, points out the profiling that corporate American wealth has taken in our own time.
The great and unexpected bonus for watching this film is in seeing the character traits that made Nancy such a great presence in the White House of Reagan's reign. Her demeanor was irreproachably correct, yet her manipulative character could not help but control everything under a sweet, perfect smile. This was a premonition of the much bigger role real life awarded her years later, when she finally had control of a powerful man with limited brain power. The reward did not come as an Oscar for roles of these nature, which were pretty much her career, but in the theater of international politics where she joined the company of other B actresses that switched to politics and excelled beyond their wildest dreams: Evita and Mme Mao Tse Tung.
A must see for pop culture studies, presidential image historians, and cult movie and science fiction analysts.
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