Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ray Milland | ... | ||
Roosevelt Grier | ... |
Jack Moss
(as 'Rosey' Grier)
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Don Marshall | ... | ||
Roger Perry | ... | ||
Chelsea Brown | ... | ||
Kathrine Baumann | ... |
Patricia
(as Kathy Baumann)
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John Dullaghan | ... |
Thomas
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John Bliss | ... |
Donald
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Bruce Kimball | ... |
Police Lieutenant
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Jane Kellem | ... |
Miss Mullen
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Lee Frost | ... |
Sergeant Hacker
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Wes Bishop | ... | ||
Roger Gentry | ... |
Police Sergeant
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Britt Nilsson | ... | ||
Rick Baker | ... |
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
If you thought THE DEFIANT ONES was the ultimate in forced race relations, try watching this horror classic from "adults only" vets Lee Frost and Wes Bishop! Ray Milland (yes, the same Ray Milland who won a Best Actor Oscar for his excellent turn in 1945's THE LOST WEEKEND) is a brilliant-but-racist brain surgeon who is dying, but has perfected a way to live on through head-transplants. Someone out there decides to teach him a lesson by placing his bigoted noggin on the body of a black convict (former professional football star Rosey Grier). The heads fight, punch each other and go through many other genuinely (and unintentionally) hilarious slapstick scenes. Try not to laugh watching Grier running around or riding on a motorcycle with a ridiculous-looking fake dummy-head planted on his shoulders.
Not to be confused with THE INCREDIBLE TWO HEADED TRANSPLANT (1971) or Andy Milligan's THE MAN WITH TWO HEADS (1972).
Score: 5 out of 10 (Though a MUST for camp aficionados!)