They Saved Hitler’s Brain (1968) – Nostalgia Central

American professor John Coleman (John Holland) is addressing a secret conference in Washington DC, on the subject of ‘Nerve Gas G’ (for which he is developing an antidote).

He is kidnapped immediately afterwards, and his worried daughter, Kathy (Audrey Caire), and son-in-law, Phil (Walter Stocker), set out to find him.

Clues lead them to the little Caribbean island of Mandoras, to which the professor has been spirited. And Mandoras, it transpires, is the secret hideaway of neo-Nazi fanatics.

The Nazis have developed a type of Nerve Gas G for themselves in order to conquer the world. Only Professor Coleman’s antidote stands in the way of their scheme, and that is why he has been kidnapped.

But the Nazis have another secret – they possess the disembodied head of Adolf Hitler, preserved alive in a pickle jar.

At the end of World War II, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Hitler out of Germany to this hiding place in Mandoras, with plans to revive the Third Reich at a later date. They now believe the time has come.

Several intelligence agencies find out about the plot and send agents to stop it.

The film – also known as The Madmen of Mandoras – was shot in separate parts. Some of it in 1959 and some in 1963.

The new footage is easy to identify as the hairstyles, clothes, and even car models change literally from scene to scene, where the new material is grafted into the original movie.

Kathy Coleman ‘K.C.’ Day
Audrey Caire
Phil Day
Walter Stocker
Camino Padua/Teo Padua
Carlos Rivas
Prof. John Coleman
John Holland
Frank Dvorak
Marshall Reed
David Garrick
Scott Peters
Tom Sharon
Keith Dahle
Suzanne Coleman
Dani Lynn
Police Chief Alaniz
Nestor Paiva
Presidente Juan Padua
Pedro Regas
Adolf Hitler
Bill Freed
Restaurant Manager
Jerry Riggio

Director
David Bradley