The Lady and the Monster

The Lady and the Monster 1944 is a film based on the horror novel Donovans Brain by Curt Siodmak. The film was directed by George Sherman and the screenplay adaption was written by Dane Lussier and Frederick Kohner.

Professor Franz Mueller Erich von Stroheim is the proud owner of his selfbuilt advanced scientific laboratory set in an old castle in the middle of the dry Arizona desert. Mueller specializes in research on the human brain and is quite obsessed conducts experiments on brain tissue, believing that a human brain can be maintained even after a mans death. He also believes that the knowledge contained in a deceased persons brain can be transferred to another person.Mueller is assisted in his attempts to prove his theory by another scientist, Patrick Cory Richard Arlen, and his young CzechoslovakianAmerican ward, Janice Farrell Vera Ralston. ........

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