Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Richard Chatten One of the reasons I love low budget sci-fi movies is that the requirement of the genre to come up with at least something reasonably out of the ordinary results in them occasionally having to rush into realms of strangeness where better movies would fear to tread; and I particularly love OLD sci-fi movies because of their occasional interesting imagery and considerable period charm (cameraman Brendan Stafford duly delivers on both counts with this potboiler shot in 50's London). Unfortunately contemplation of the simple existence of 'The Man Without a Body' is far more appealing than actually having to sit through it.Veteran exploitation producer Guido Coen presumably decided that it was time to try his hand at a sci-fi quickie, but 'The Man Without a Body' still looks and feels more like one of his cheap crime pictures, with a reanimated head grafted on to the plot the way Dr. Philip Merritt eventually grafts one on to his hapless assistant Dr Waldenhouse - which provides the film with its funniest scene as his new creation lumbers out on to the streets. ("You know it's remarkable it's alive, this head mounted on your assistant's body" nonchalantly observes Dr. Alexander (Norman Shelley). "That was quick thinking on your part, doctor, I must admit.") Presumably based on a nodding acquaintance with old Frankenstein movies, screenwriter William Grote (probably a pseudonym, since it's his sole film credit) introduces one truly original idea to this otherwise entirely derivative mishmash by coming up with the astonishing idea of resurrecting the head of that old sixteenth century fraud Nostradamus to provide bullying millionaire Karl Brussard (George Coulouris) with his final desperate bid for longevity; although "original" is probably not quite the word to describe it. Separated from Nostradamus's body at Brussard's behest by a drunken, struck-off surgeon (Tony Quinn) who sneaks into his crypt, Brussard then smuggles the head through customs back to London in a hatbox. As played by Michael Golden, Nostradamus conveniently speaks English, and Coulouris's attempt to employ his brain as a sort of high-definition VHS tape by browbeating him into accepting that his memories and personality are now those of Brussard is what makes this film one of a kind.It took two credited directors - one American - to bring this shambles to the screen, and in addition to Robert Hutton as the inevitable American leading man, 'The Man Without a Body' also manages to have two foreign-accented leading ladies: good girl Julia Arnall from Austria and bad girl Nadja Regin from Serbia.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Greedy and unscrupulous financial investment/banker Karl Brussard, George Coulouris, learns from his doctor Phil Merritt, Robert Hutton, that he has a terminal brain tumor that will end up killing him within a year. Refusing to accept the enviable Brussard seeing that he's experimenting with the brains of dead monkeys and bringing them, the live monkeys that he's experimenting with, back to life Brussard convinces Dr. Merritt to do the same for him. The rub in all this is that in Dr. Merritt's mind is that doing the same experiments with a human being is unethical and even worse, for Brussard, who's brain does he want to replace that of his his own? Thinking big in the brain he wants to have Brussard goes to France to check out the mausoleum when the great seer and philosopher Nostradamus, Michael Gordon, is in-terned in. Brussard plans to have his head surgically removed and have it brought back to life by the very reluctant, in not knowing who's head it is, Dr. Merritt. It's the sneaky Brussard who's planing to use Nostradamus' brain to predict future stock markets moves and thus profit from them. But the great Nostradamus knowing what a creep that Brussard is has plans of his own that in the end , by Brussard flowing his bad advice, will end up bankrupting him!You don't quite understand, unless he's insane, Brussard's plans to become the richest man in the world by using Nostradamus' future stock predictions to do it since he hasn't long to live anyway to enjoy it? As Brussard is losing his money in the fake stock predictions that Nostradamus is giving him he's slowly losing his life from the terminal brain tumor that's killing him. With both his money and life on the verge of expiring Brussard really loses it and in an attempt to get back at Nostradamus tries to kidnap his head and destroy it!***SPOILERS*** This total insane action on Brussard's part has the head, that's Nostradamus, re-unite with the body, that of someone else, and keep the by now completely out of it Karl Brussard from his attempt to destroy it! By the time the movie is finally over Nostradamus loses his head for the second time but unlike the first this time it really counted. That by him putting and end to Brussard's crazy plans to rule the world of finance by using his head to do it!

wcpag7-2 One of the best in the classic science fiction cinema library of tales where a simple idea becomes a complex twist of monkey business.You'll love the ending of this film after watching its eerie plot unfold as Quartemass and the Pit and Frankenstien unfolded. Beware of trusting the man who would steal the head of Michele de Nostradame a famous french prophet who wrote the centuries. As he betrays the scientist with the stock market predictions a struggle between what is morally right and wrong takes place. Nostradamus finally has the last laugh.Having this classic in your sci fi library is a must! My favorite scene was when the head awakens and the climactic debate begins between Nostradamus and his captor. I don't want to give the ending away but at the end of this film, Nostradamus is hanging around with a big smile on his face.

bijoudog Absolutely incredible! Not only are there head grafts, but they manage to graft Nostradamus' intact head onto a person's body! Imagine his confusion. Terrible movie, but mercifully short, and so unbelievable it's worth a stare.