TV movie They Saved Hitler's Brain began life in 1963 as a 74-minute drive-in B-movie called The Madmen of Mandoras, in which Hitler's severed head, saved by Nazi madmen, plotted world domination from a small South American island. Several years later, when it came to selling the film for TV, it was decided that a longer running time was necessary: new footage was shot (on a non existent budget) and clumsily integrated into the old, a few of the original scenes were excised, and the resultant incomprehensible mess slapped with a new title. The outcome is a virtually unwatchable, sleep-inducing crap-fest that, if it wasn't for the fact that TV movies do not qualify, would sit very comfortably in IMDb's Bottom 100.
I was, however, impressed by two scenes—a car blown up by a bomb and another vehicle rolling and exploding—at least until I discovered that they were originally from a Robert Mitchum film called Thunder Road (1958).
I was, however, impressed by two scenes—a car blown up by a bomb and another vehicle rolling and exploding—at least until I discovered that they were originally from a Robert Mitchum film called Thunder Road (1958).