The Head (1959)
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
- Released
- 1959-07-24
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Horror
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Victor Trivas
- TMDB rating
- 5.1/10 from 32 votes
Cast
- Horst Frank as Dr. Brandt
- Karin Kernke as Irene Sander
- Michel Simon as Prof. Dr. Abel
- Helmut Schmid as Bert Jaeger
- Paul Dahlke as Inspector Sturm
- Dieter Eppler as Paul Lerner
- Kurt Müller-Graf as Walter Burke
- Christiane Maybach as Stella
- Osman Ragheb as Franz
- Maria Stadler as Ms. Schneider
- Barbara Valentin as Dancer
- Johannes Buzalski as Beggar