The Brain Machine | |
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Directed by | Ken Hughes |
Written by | Ken Hughes |
Produced by | Alec C. Snowden |
Starring | Maxwell Reed Elizabeth Allan Patrick Barr Russell Napier |
Cinematography | Josef Ambor |
Edited by | Geoffrey Muller |
Music by | Richard Taylor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Brain Machine is a 1956 British thriller film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Maxwell Reed, Elizabeth Allan and Patrick Barr. [2] [3]
A husband and wife team of doctors attempt to stop a dangerously unbalanced man from committing a series of crimes.
The film was made at Merton Park Studios in South London by Anglo-Amalgamated. It was released as a co-feature, as part of a double bill. [4]
Filmink called it " a decent little thriller that feels like it wants to be sci-fi but isn’t." [5]
Berkshire later sued RKO claiming the latter did a poor job distributing. [6]
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