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Summary: Pull your self together
Review: Long unavailable except on late night TV and now on DVD, Ray Milland and Roosevelt Grier put their heads together to come up this politically correct movie before the term "politically correct".Looks like director Lee Frost is challenging Rodger Corman for best director of a cultural movie. He may have a ways to go. Roosevelt Grier wakes up face to face with Ray Milland who had his head grafted on to Rosey's body. Naturally one is a bigot and the other is a criminal. This looks so real that you would thing that Ray has a plastic head. They must explain this to friends and there is the obligatory chase scene. A must for motorcycle enthusiasts.
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Summary: BODY AND SOUL
Review: The MGM Midnite Movies serie allows us to discover or rediscover a certain category of films one usually doesn't find in stores nor watch on television during decent hours. THE THING WITH TWO HEADS belongs to the sub-sub-sub genre of the exploitation/horror/sci-fi/car crash movies of the beginning of the seventies. And I've watched it until the end. The picture is funny at times but an overlong track race destroys the indulgence created in the viewer's mind by the original idea presented. What remains is the pleasure to admire Ray Milland and a few scenes deserving to stay in the annals of the most improbable plots ever invented. Only a trailer and subtitles as bonus features. A DVD zone nostalgia.
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Summary: Uneven, but still worth a look
Review: This film's starting point is bizarre enough to draw in cinephiles with a liking for cult films: Max Kirshner (Milland), a brilliant but racist transplant surgeon, defies death by having his head transplanted in the body of Jack Moss (Grier), a black convict who donates his body to science while hoping to prove his innocence during the 30-day 'life-extension' he's being given; to say that Kirscher didn't expect his head to be united with a black man's body is an understatement. Although more has been written about the scenes involving 'the thing with two heads' than about the rest of the film, the first half is clearly the strongest: scenes that involve Kirshner being dragged in his basement or meeting with various colleagues especially come to mind. After the operation has taken place, the film predictably shifts its attention to the Kirshner-Moss relationship. It is initially intriguing, and the final ten minutes are almost as effective as the first half, but repetitions are numerous until the film gets there (a far too long chase sequence is mainly at fault). The interaction between Kirshner, Moss and Williams, a black doctor played by Don Marshall, is quite interesting, though: the first two blackmail the latter, both for different reasons, and Williams finds himself in the middle of options which could all benefit him in one way or another. In spite of the movie's shortcomings, this good DVD transfer of a rare film should be seen.
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Summary: A white bigot's head transplanted on a soul brother's body!
Review: You just cannot improve on the tag line for this one as the heading for this review: "They transplanted a white bigot's head on a soul brother's body!" The white bigot, one-time Oscar winner Ray Milland as Dr. Maxwell Kirshner, also happens to have a lot of money so that when he is dying he can have his head transplanted onto the body of a black man on death row, former NFL Fearsome Foursome defensive lineman Roosevelt Grier as Jack Moss. The result is "The Thing with Two Heads," which is one of the great BAD movies of all time, second only to "Plan 9 From Outer Space" in my book in being so outrageously bad that it ends up being so enjoyable. Is it a comedy? A horror film? Science fiction? The answer is: Yes! Ideally you want to share this film with friends and family who have never seen it and then watch how far their jaws drop once the plot unfolds. Milland and Grier have some great banter and they manage to saw it all with a straight face, which has got to impress you given the plot. This 1972 film directed by Lee Frost, who did "Chain Gang Women" that same year, is a cult classic. Pay attention and you will see William Smith, later famous as Falconetti on "Rich Man, Poor Man" in the choice bit part of the Hysterical Condemned Man. Make double the usual amount of popcorn for this one, boys and girls.
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Summary: A white bigot's head transplanted on a soul brother's body!
Review: You just cannot improve on the tag line for this one as the heading for this review: "They transplanted a white bigot's head on a soul brother's body!" The white bigot, one-time Oscar winner Ray Milland as Dr. Maxwell Kirshner, also happens to have a lot of money so that when he is dying he can have his head transplanted onto the body of a black man on death row, former NFL Fearsome Foursome defensive lineman Roosevelt Grier as Jack Moss. The result is "The Thing with Two Heads," which is one of the great BAD movies of all time, second only to "Plan 9 From Outer Space" in my book in being so outrageously bad that it ends up being so enjoyable. Is it a comedy? A horror film? Science fiction? The answer is: Yes! Ideally you want to share this film with friends and family who have never seen it and then watch how far their jaws drop once the plot unfolds. Milland and Grier have some great banter and they manage to saw it all with a straight face, which has got to impress you given the plot. This 1972 film directed by Lee Frost, who did "Chain Gang Women" that same year, is a cult classic. Pay attention and you will see William Smith, later famous as Falconetti on "Rich Man, Poor Man" in the choice bit part of the Hysterical Condemned Man. Make double the usual amount of popcorn for this one, boys and girls.
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Summary: A white bigot's head transplanted on a soul brother's body!
Review: You just cannot improve on the tag line for this one as the heading for this review: "They transplanted a white bigot's head on a soul brother's body!" The white bigot, one-time Oscar winner Ray Milland as Dr. Maxwell Kirshner, also happens to have a lot of money so that when he is dying he can have his head transplanted onto the body of a black man on death row, former NFL Fearsome Foursome defensive lineman Roosevelt Grier as Jack Moss. The result is "The Thing with Two Heads," which is one of the great BAD movies of all time, second only to "Plan 9 From Outer Space" in my book in being so outrageously bad that it ends up being so enjoyable. Is it a comedy? A horror film? Science fiction? The answer is: Yes! Ideally you want to share this film with friends and family who have never seen it and then watch how far their jaws drop once the plot unfolds. Milland and Grier have some great banter and they manage to saw it all with a straight face, which has got to impress you given the plot. This 1972 film directed by Lee Frost, who did "Chain Gang Women" that same year, is a cult classic. Pay attention and you will see William Smith, later famous as Falconetti on "Rich Man, Poor Man" in the choice bit part of the Hysterical Condemned Man. Make double the usual amount of popcorn for this one, boys and girls.
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