poster on linen THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE 1959 / 1962 USA 27x41 LINENBACKED

Description: Original 1962 (made in 1959) Theatrical USA One Sheet on Linen GOOD+ to VERY GOOD condition, nicely backed. Reynold Brown Artwork. A restored poster with bright color and clean appearance. It showed general signs of use, like light edge and fold wear, crossfold separation, slight creases, subtle toning, unobtrusive smudges. Linen border is one to two inches outside poster border. Beautiful vintage poster with classic sci-fi, horror imagery. FAST and SAFE DELIVERY a Certainty. Part of a gallery of more than ONE THOUSAND LINENBACKED and more than 30,000 un-restored original rare paper items being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL PHOTOS of Rare Paper are ACTUAL ITEMS being sold. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you. 1959 / 1962. Directed by Joseph Green. TAGLINES : "Alive... without a body... fed by an unspeakable horror from hell!" "It's madness, not science!"- A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body. Dr. Bill Cortner has been performing experimental surgery on human guinea pigs without authorization and against the advice of his father, also a surgeon. When Bill's fiancée Jan Compton is decapitated in an automobile accident, he manages to keep her brain alive. He now needs to find a new body for his bride-to-be and settles on Doris Powell, a glamor model with a facial disfigurement. Jan meanwhile doesn't want to continue her body-less existence and calls upon the creature hidden in the basement, one of Bill Cortner's unsuccessful experiments, to break loose. Made in 1959, but released in 1962 due to various legal problems. CAST includes Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniel, Adele Lamont, Bonnie Sharie, Paula Maurice, Marilyn Hanold, Bruce Brighton, Arny Freeman, Lola Mason, Bruce Kerr, Eddie Carmel (as the Monster), Doris Brent (audio), Sammy Petrillo. VIEWER COMMENT : "A Little Head, ANY ONE?! This thing is both lurid and lewd, but it is also incredibly ludicrous in a profoundly bumptious sort of way!" BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : Shot in only 13 days, all of the sets for the production were able to be housed in the basement of a New York hotel, with room to spare! Jan and Bill, the two leads, drive out to the country house in a 1959 Mercury Park Lane convertible. Only 1,257 were made, and an example in excellent condition in 2020 could be worth over $80,000, much more than the entire budget for this film. The severed-head character of Jan is called "Jan in the Pan" by popular culture. Reportedly, Virginia Leith (aka "Jan") hated the film so much she refused to return for post-production. At least a few of her lines were dubbed by Doris Brent, who played a nurse. Upon the death of Virginia Leith, her body was donated to medical science at the UCLA Medical School. At the beginning, the title is given as "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", but the end title shot reads "The HEAD That Wouldn't Die", which would have been the title used in the United Kingdom if it was ever allowed to play in theatres there, it wasn't. The first Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988) movie watched by Michael J. Nelson after Joel Hodgson left. The story was made into a theatrical musical in 2009. Listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made, in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book, The Official Razzie® Movie Guide.

Price: 776.72 USD

Location: Wake Forest, North Carolina

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