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User Rating:
4.9/10   526 votes
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Director:

Nathan Juran

Writer:

Ray Buffum (screenplay)

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Release Date:

1 October 1957 (USA) more

Tagline:

It Will Steal Your Body And Damn Your Soul! more

Plot:

A powerful criminal brain from the planet Arous, Gor, assumes the body of scientist Steve March. Thru... more | add synopsis

User Comments:

Just why did Shirley Temple's ex star in these kinds of movies? more (34 total)


Cast

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John Agar ... Steve March
Joyce Meadows ... Sally Fallon
Robert Fuller ... Dan Murphy
Thomas Browne Henry ... John Fallon (as Thomas B. Henry)
Ken Terrell ... Colonel in Conference Room (as Kenneth Terrell)
Henry Travis ... Colonel Frogley
E. Leslie Thomas ... General Brown
Tim Graham ... Sheriff Wiley Pane
Bill Giorgio ... Russian
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Additional Details

Runtime:

71 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | UK:PG | Canada:PG


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Although some sources list Morris Ankrum as being in the cast, he does not appear in the film. more

Goofs:

Continuity: When Steve looks at the page torn from the encyclopedia in the endgame, the shot shows the page still attached to the book, even after the girl had torn it out. more

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: The Brain from Planet Arous" (1996) more


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11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
Just why did Shirley Temple's ex star in these kinds of movies?, 4 January 2006
10/10
Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

My 10/10 rating of course only applies because I assume that only '50s-B-movie fetishists would even take any interest in "The Brain from Planet Arous". But previous reviewers have noted that this movie takes a slightly different approach: criminal brain Gor comes to earth to inhabit a man's body and thereby rule the universe, while police brain Vol arrives in search of the criminal brain (meaning that most of the brains on Planet Arous are good guys). Therefore, even non-fetishists should take some interest in this movie.

The characters are pretty much what one would expect: the men are all hot-headed, while the one woman is desperate. The main character Steve March is played by John Agar, aka Shirley Temple's first husband. I also saw him in "Journey to the Seventh Planet" (although I paid slightly more attention to the hot babes in that one). Maybe he starred in '50s and '60s B-sci-fi movies because his reputation as Shirley Temple's ex limited his opportunities (actually, I don't know whether that limited his opportunities). Also starring are Joyce Meadows as Steve's hubby Sally Fallon, Thomas Brown Henry as her father John, and Dale Tate as the voices of Gor and Vol. If this had ever gotten shown on "MST3K", Mike or Servo or Crow probably would have said "If Planet Arous has a brain, why didn't the people behind this movie?" But I personally didn't think find this a bad movie. Like any '50s sci-fi flick, you have to accept it for what it is.

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