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Running time. 90 min. Country. United States. Language. English. The Thing with Two Heads is a 1972 American blaxploitation science fiction comedy film directed by Lee Frost and starring Ray Milland, Rosey Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Kathy Baumann, and Chelsea Brown. [1][2]
The most incredible thing in “The Thing with Two Heads” is not the head transplant, however, but what happens next. Within hours after Milland’s head has been screwed on, the two-headed escapee is on a motorcycle and being chased by no less than 14 police cars. Every one of them is destroyed during the chase, a process that takes so long ...
Written by the director Lee Frost, Wes Bishop and James Gordon White, the 1972 film doesn't look sure of whether it thinks it's funny, but seems to add gags to cover itself. Where The Incredible was a straight-forward monster movie, The Thing has an agenda: it is, in fact, a sensitive treatment of the tricky subject of racism.
A 1972 American blaxploitation sci-fi horror comedy movie directed by Lee Frost, which has a dying, racist white doctor's (Ray Milland) head getting grafted onto the body of a black death row inmate (Rosey Grier). The movie also stars Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Kathy Baumann, Chelsea Brown, John Dullaghan, Lee Frost, Rick Baker, John Bliss, and ...
The doctor blew it–the most fantastic medical experiment of the age. A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man’s body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.
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A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row. Lee Frost. Director, Screenplay, Story. Wes Bishop. Screenplay, Story. James Gordon White.
