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Friday, June 4, 2010

The Thing With 2 Heads (1972)





























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Storyline
Despite his deteriorating health, incredibly wealthy and profoundly racist brain surgeon Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) plans to be around for a very long time. What better way to achieve his goal than to transplant his still cognitive noggin onto the body of a healthy human being? Having performed similar experimental surgeries on animals, Maxwell convinces his colleagues to achieve the groundbreaking and unsanctioned medical procedure on him – the first successful head-graft. With his body in rapid decline, Maxwell’s head gets transplanted onto the first available body. And that would be death row inmate Jack Moss (Rosey Grier). Did we forget to mention that Jack Moss is black?

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