They Saved Hitler's Brain

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name = They Saved Hitler's Brain


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director = David Bradley
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writer = Steve Bennett
Peter Miles
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year = 1966
runtime = 91 min
country = United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0830818

"They Saved Hitler's Brain" is a 1966 science fiction film that was adapted for television from a shorter theatrical feature film, "Madmen of Mandoras", directed by David Bradley. The film was lengthened with about twenty minutes additional footage shot by UCLA students at the request of the distributor. As the original footage was shot several years earlier, the differences in costumes and production values are rather obvious.

ynopsis

World War II is over, and Nazi officials remove Adolf Hitler's living head and hide it in the fictional South American country of Mandoras, so that they can resurrect the Third Reich for the future. It fast forwards into the 1960s, and the surviving officials kidnap a scientist in an attempt to keep Hitler alive. Various intelligence agencies, aware of the evil plot, recruit secret agents to bust the Nazi officials.

Cast

*Walter Stocker as Phil Day
*Audrey Caire as Kathy Coleman 'K.C.' Day
*Carlos Rivas as Camino Padua / Teo Padua
*John Holland as Prof. John Coleman
*Marshall Reed as Frank Dvorak
*Scott Peters as David Garrick
*Keith Dahle as Tom Sharon
*Dani Lynn as Suzanne Coleman
*Nestor Paiva as Police Chief Alaniz
*Pedro Regas as Presidente Juan Padua
*Bill Freed as Adolf Hitler

Parodies in popular culture

In "The Simpsons"

*An episode was titled "They Saved Lisa's Brain" as an obvious reference to the film.
*The episode "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" features Abe Simpson remembering a moment during World War II when he had Hitler in his sights. He had muttered "Heh heh heh, now they'll never save your brain, Hitler" but the shot went astray through the clumsy intervention of fellow Hellfish squad member Montgomery Burns.
*In the episode "Marge Be Not Proud", one of the games in the store "Try-N-Save" is titled "Save Hitler's Brain."
*In the episode "Duffless", one of the items on the conveyor belt is Hitler's head in a jar.
*Simpsons Comics referenced the title in the story "They Saved Homer's Brain" in 1996.

In other media

*Upon learning he was dying of radiation poisoning due to the constant exposure from his kryptonite ring, Lex Luthor stages his own death and has his brain preserved in a jar while wired to a computer, while a new body is cloned for him. He then re-emerges as his alleged illegitimate son Alexander Luthor, Jr..
*In the episode "A Clone of My Own" of the series Futurama, Farnsworth references this movie by saying "Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far."
*Unnatural Axe 1982 song "They Saved Hitler's Brain" contains direct references to scenes in the film.
*The Angry Samoans song, "They Saved Hitler's Cock," is an obvious reference to the film's title.
*In Flaming Carrot Comics, The Flaming Carrot is menaced by an army of disembodied clones of Hitler's jackbooted feet.
*Hitler's brain is a character in the Irregular Webcomic! series of comic strips. [ "http://irregularwebcomic.net/cast/cliffhangers.html" ]
*Weird Al Yankovic has a song called Midnight Star (on the "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D album) that mentions "keeping Hitler's brain alive inside a jar."
*The Dead Kennedy's Song "We Have a Bigger Problem Now" references Hitler's brain in a jar. The supposed formaldehyde used to preserve Hitler's brain is an ingredient of a fictional cocktail drink along with Jack Daniels and purple Kool-Aid.

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