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Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Hitchcoc Even as a kid, with very little taste, I though this had to be about as stupid as anything I've ever seen. First of all, the two men, Ray Milland and Rosey Grier, look like they are sleeping in the same bed and got stuck. Nobody knew what to do with their necks. Of course, the question is, "What would happen to a being with two heads?" This is an uncomfortable question when you think of everything. I won't criticize it too much because the campy idea of a black mand and an old white man stuck in the same body with their own thought processes is entertaining to a point. I just couldn't buy it.

sol- Less straightforward than one might expect for a tale about a racist surgeon whose head is transplanted onto an African American man's body, the vast majority of 'The Thing With Two Heads' is actually played straight (not as a comedy), nor does the surgeon gradually overcome his prejudices as one might expect. The difficulty of pinpointing what exactly the filmmakers were going for here has lead to the film acquiring a mixed reputation, but it is a decidedly different sci-fi tale at least. As mentioned, the comedy angle does not take off until rather late in the piece (around halfway in) and it is furthermore a good thirty minutes before the transplant takes place with the film going into glorious detail regarding its head grafting pseudoscience and how host bodies need to learn to accept newly transplanted heads before the original heads can be removed and so on. This early part of the film also features a two-headed gorilla, wonderfully crafted by Rick Baker. It is really only as the comedy angle starts to warm up that the film loses its way with prolonged racing and chase scenes when the better moments are the ones in which the Thing interacts with others, including the African American's girlfriend, curious if he has two of anything else (!). If not a film that be unreservedly recommended, the movie's strangeness alone might make it worth a look for some.

Claudio Carvalho In California, the renowned Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) is a brilliant transplant surgeon and owner of the Kirshner Transplant Institute. He is dying and develops a technique to transplant his head in another body in a gorilla. Kirshner, who is racist, hires the prominent Dr. Fred Williams (Don Marshall) to help in his surgery but when he sees that the doctor is black, he unsuccessfully tries to call off the contract. He uses his friendship with the Governor expecting to use the body of a convicted in death row that could donate his body to his experiment instead of being executed. The strong and black inmate Jack Moss ('Rosey' Grier) accepts the offer expecting to get more thirty days to prove that he is innocent. However Dr. Philip Desmond (Roger Perry) immediately operates Kirshner and Jack, but he is not able to control Jack that escapes from Kirshner's house. Jack teams-up with his girlfriend Lila (Chelsea Brown) and Dr. Fred Williams, who is convinced of his innocence and decides to remove Kirshner's head. But how to find another compatible body for Dr. Kirshner?The Trash "The Thing with Two Heads" is a stupid, racist, cheesy but also very funny dark comedy. The politically incorrect plot is absurd but makes laugh a lot. It is impressive that Oscar winner Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend") accepts such a silly role. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "O Monstro de Duas Cabeças" ("The Monster with Two Heads")

bkoganbing The Thing With Two Heads is one of those drive-in fodder camp films that is spectacularly bad it ought to be seen and seen again for the sheer scope of audacity the producers had in making this. Ray Milland's career hit rock bottom when the Oscar winning actor signed for this one. Hope he got a hefty paycheck. Roosevelt Grier's career was hardly given a boost either.Ray Milland is a racist scientist who is slowly and inexorably dying of cancer. But whatever else he is, he's a brilliant scientist who is experimenting with transplants, in fact he's already created a two headed gorilla.The trouble with the experiment is that when the head from an old sick body is attached to a new body before it gets acclimatized to the new body, the old head has to stay for a bit to keep the body alive. So that might not matter with gorillas, but when Milland is hours from death they have to grab the first body available.Which turns out to be Roosevelt Grier on death row and who also says he's innocent. What a surprise Milland gets when he finds himself attached to Grier. If he wasn't so racist Milland might actually think of some tremendous advantages that Rosey Grier has.In any event Grier who expected to be off this mortal coil is just as unhappy having Milland right next door. Nevertheless he's going to take this second chance to prove he's innocent.Most hilariously bad scene in the film is Grier and Milland stealing a motocross bike and wrecking a race and demolishing 14 police cars in the process. I guess the cops were just freaked out by chasing a two headed man. In any event the town no doubt was named Keystone.Along for the ride is Don Marshall who Milland crapped all over when he took a job at Milland's place of transplanting business. Marshall is really enjoying Milland's predicament, so much so he's agreed to help Grier prove he's innocent.The Thing With Two Heads has to be seen to be believed.