The Brain Machine

1955
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1h 24m

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Elizabeth Allan, Patrick Barr, and Maxwell Reed in The Brain Machine (1955)

A doctor is taken hostage by a drug smuggler whom she has diagnosed as psychotic. Her estranged husband has to find her before the smuggling gang find him and kill them both.A doctor is taken hostage by a drug smuggler whom she has diagnosed as psychotic. Her estranged husband has to find her before the smuggling gang find him and kill them both.A doctor is taken hostage by a drug smuggler whom she has diagnosed as psychotic. Her estranged husband has to find her before the smuggling gang find him and kill them both.

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5.5/10

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Trivia
Joan Tyrrell's debut.

Goofs
In a climactic scene Maxwell Reed fires a 6 shot revolver 7 times.

Connections
Featured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: The Brain Machine (1969)

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Drumdramatics
(uncredited)
Music by Robert Farnon
Chappell Recorded Music Library

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The most bizarre aspect of this competent minor British kidnap thriller is its completely inappropriate packaging as science fiction. The 'Brain Machine' of the title refers to an electroencephalograph which is used by psychologists to identify brainwave patterns characteristic of psychotics. That is indeed a futuristic concept, but the eponymous machine actually only features in the first ten minutes or so. The title sequence is very techy, and the theme tune is the same as the TV serial version of 'Quatermass and the Pit'. Indeed, the opening scene, where the brain machine is introduced to us, is highly reminiscent of scenes in Quatermass, 'X the Unknown' and similar pictures. But after that, the whole thing settles down into thriller mode, with a traditional nick o' time climax. Enjoyable, but misleading.