Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Red-Barracuda A neurobiologist who has developed an anti-dote to a deadly virus is kidnapped and taken to a small Latin American nation called Mandoras. It turns out that this is all linked to Nazis who have managed to keep Adolf Hitler's disembodied head alive in a jar, from here the Fuhrer barks out orders as he attempts to resurrect the Third Reich.I realised quite early on as I watched Madmen of Mandoras that this had to be the early prototype for a movie I had previously seen, namely They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968). It turns out that this earlier version had been released briefly in 1963 and was turned into a movie fit for TV five years later. In order to achieve this, additional material was added to pad out the running time to a more acceptable ninety minutes. Unfortunately, this extra footage was filmed by amateurs and looked very much like what it was, i.e. people from 1968 interspersed into a story filmed several years earlier. It was also, of course, re-titled with the more entertaining, yet major plot point revealing, new name.From memory, there is really not a great deal of significant difference between both versions but Madmen of Mandoras is certainly the better. For one thing, it's shorter and for a film as decidedly ropey as this one, that is a clear blessing. It's also purer in the sense that it doesn't contain pointless extra newer footage whose only purpose is to add more minutes to the run-time. In truth Madmen of Mandoras is a semi-passable b-movie in most respects. Although it really should have been far schlockier given its premise, unfortunately in the main it is uninspired adventure type fare that's on offer here. At the end of the day, Hitler's head is the real star of the show in this one. It's not often you really get to say that sentence, in fact I'm pretty sure this must be the only scenario where that specific point can be made. Even the demise of the head is a highlight, where it melts while engulfed by flames in a sequence that really is rather well done all things considered. All-in-all, this one is okay but should have been better given the potential of it's decidedly psychotronic central idea. If you really have to see a Nazis/mad scientists on a tropical locale film, then I would suggest the more entertaining She Demons (1958) as the way to go.

JoeB131 About half the reviewers here make mention of the 1970's footage added into the film when it was re-released under the title "They Saved Hitler's Brain." This just added to the cheesiness of the whole exercise.To recap, the plot of this film is that a few surviving Nazis have managed to save Hitler's head in a big jar, while keeping it alive with a machine. Now, it's not really clear why they do this, the only words Hitler in a Jar says is "Mach Schnell". (Roughly translated, "Hurry Up!" My father, a German immigrant, was very fond of that one.) One has to wonder if Hitler in a Jar ever got a date from Jan in the Pan from "The Brain that wouldn't die". They'd have made a cute couple.The film is C movie quality, and the scenes with Hitler in a jar are just ludicrous. The actor who played Hitler just mugs for the camera ridiculously in a way that would embarrass even Mel Brooks. (It appears he never worked again.) Also, the Nazi plot makes little or no sense. They are going to release this "G-Gas" stuff into the air that will kill everyone, probably most of the animals as well. And they kidnap the professor who has the antidote. So, uh, why? Why not just kill him? Were they going to release this gas and they didn't have the antidote?

orb-2 Originally titled Madmen of Mandoras, this was supposed to be a political paranoid thriller along the lines of The Manchurian Candidate, with a respectable budget and moody wide-screen cinematography, but halfway through principal filming in 1963 it was shut down and shelved. Somehow this film and one of its supporting actors ended up in a nameless cheapie studio in 1973, and got completed with grainy, shaky, cropped photography, a cast wearing shag hair and mini skirts and driving groovy convertibles, and cheap electric-piano and twitchy-guitar cop-show music that tries to sound like Shaft or Dirty Harry, all anachronistic and mismatched to the already-then outdated original. This film then, with the copyright date and credits of 1963, and a running time of barely one hour, went straight to sindicated TV release in the late 1970's as They Saved Hitler's Brain. This is an obvious chop-shop job. The original project's sheer preposterousness still impresses, with an unusual portrayal of You-Know-Who with an actor sticking his head into a glass tank through a hole in a table for closeups, and a puppet head in that infamous pickle jar for the long shots. Some connoisseurs of the worst should be rewarded if they're able to stick it out for the whole hour.

MooCowMo Well, they saved enough to make a wax head in a pickle jar shout out "Hogan's Hero's"-styled German to a bunch of scurrying lab assistants. Of the many, many, MANY bad films released during the 60's, few can rival the amazingly boring and incowherent non-energy of "They Saved Hitler's Brain". Huge, indigestible chunks of film debris from other films are awash in this film, like so much flotsum. Legend has it that at least 2 moovies were ground together to make up this one film, but there may be more - and the MooCow is here to tell you that they only ground together the moore boring and irrelevant scenes. Seriously, this is a film were virtually nothing happens. Except for scenes showing the grimacing "Mr. H.", this wad of celluloid is completely worthless. The MooCow's favorite scene: idiot #1 and his girlfrend are driving idiot #2 around for no reason; a car drives by, shoots idiot #2 dead, and drives off; idiot #1 looks at the dead idiot #2 and says "what happened?"; idiot #1's girlfriend says "I think he's been shot". Guess the car that blared by, with blazing guns, didn't quite register. Since the film is virtually plotless, the MooCow cannot provide you with even a cursory explaination as to what;s going on, excet that in the end the wax Hitler head gets melted, and the world is saved. This moovie is moore an endurance test than a film; schlock-fans, remember those boring 15 minutes of soybean fields at the beginning of "Manos: the Hands of Fate"? Well, imagine an entire moovie made up of that. We're not kidding! :€ No one in this film is worth mentioning, except the hideously poor direction was provided by David Bradley, the "genius" behind "Twelve to the Moon". The MooCow says avoid this film like a pre-frontal lobotomy, for serious film masochists only!! :=8P