1968 historical fiction
Rating: 2/20 (Josh: 0/20; Fred: 0/20; Libby: -5/20; Jeremy: 1.5/20; Johnny: didn't make it to the end of the film)
Plot: They saved Hitler's brain! Actually, it's his whole head. And they're keeping it alive on an island until it's time to unleash it and take over the world. Nondescript people try to put a stop to the Nazi shenanigans.
This is one of those spliced-together jobs with a lot of "movie" filmed in either the late-50's or early-60's and other stuff added, presumably so that underdeveloped and completely superfluous characters could get in slow car chases and then die, in the late-60's to beef this up into a feature-length film. That explains the varying fashions and hairstyles. The titular fuhrer or Nazis aren't even mentioned for the first 40 minutes of the movie, and we don't get the film's money shot, Hitler's head, until about an hour of some of the dullest and most incomprehensible movie has already happened. This was a pretty painful movie for my friends as indicated by the above ratings. In fact, when I gave it my 2/20, somebody asked, "For what?" Obviously, it's for the comical faces that Hitler's head makes, some looking like he's just passed gas. My favorite has him smirking after a character is shot. I'll save you the trouble. Here's Hitler's head:
Hitler's played by Bill Freed who did this and a comedy western directed by Francis Ford Coppola called Tonight for Sure that I'm pretty sure Francis Ford Coppola doesn't want me to know about. I assume Freed is Adolf Hitler in a flashback where he's not just a head in a glass jar, and if that's the case, he's got Hitler-esque gesticulations down. The only thing possibly worse than the plot, a plot made more baffling by the multiple movies being joined together by what I can only assume is scotch tape, is the lighting. It's terrible, casting giant shadows on fake-looking walls behind the actors. My favorite scene has a shot of four guys in a row with the one on the far left completely in shadows in every shot. He must have been pissed that he couldn't be seen in this movie. Or if he saw this movie, he more likely was pretty thrilled about it. There are also so many day/night continuity errors in this that you start to wonder if the director was doing it all on purpose as some sort of weird metaphor. Anyway, this is one that a bad movie aficionado should know about but might not enjoy. I would have found it difficult to endure without the help of my fellow Bad Movie Clubbers.
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