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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]
Synopsis. A car pulls into a pathway and up to a vast mansion. A driver gets out and walks to the boot to get out a wheelchair. An Orderly comes out to open a rear door. Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) is helped out of the car and put in a wheelchair. He gets wheeled up the steps and into the mansion.
The Thing with Two Heads: Directed by Lee Frost. With Ray Milland, Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry. Doctors are forced to transplant the head of terminally ill, arthritic racist surgeon Maxwell Kirshner onto the body of African American Death Row inmate Jack Moss because there is no other donor.
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- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Lee Frost
- 1972-07-19
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.
Sep 21, 2022 · Having released The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant in 1971, the company promptly ripped itself off by producing The Thing With Two Heads in 1972—but shook things up in the process by partnering with the dubious duo of Wes Bishop and Lee Frost, and resorting to the common early-70s tactic of taking an existing story and reworking it with a blaxploitation twist.
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 ...
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Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. One of AIP's carefully cultivated jokes-in-bad-taste, in which the head of a terminally ill, racist brain surgeon (Milland) is grafted onto the body of a death row black (Grier ...
