Donovan’s Brain (1953)

Director: Felix E. Feist
Cast: Gene Evans, James Anderson, Lew Ayres, Lisa Howard, Nancy Davis Reagan, Steve Brodie, Tom Powers, Victor Sutherland

Synopsis:

A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a “Jekyll and Hyde” paradigm.