They Saved Hitler's Brain
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They Saved Hitler's Brain is a 1966 science fiction film that was adapted for television from a shorter theatrical feature film, Madmen of Mandoras, directed by David Bradley. The film was lengthened with about twenty minutes additional footage shot by UCLA students at the request of the distributor. As the original footage was shot several years earlier, the differences in costumes and production values are rather obvious.
[edit] Synopsis
World War II is over, and Nazi officials remove Adolf Hitler's living head and hide it in the South American country of Mandoras, so that they can resurrect the Third Reich for the future. It fast forwards into the 1960s, and the surviving officials kidnap a scientist in an attempt to keep Hitler alive. Various intelligence agencies, aware of the evil plot, recruit secret agents to bust the Nazi officials.
[edit] Influence
- It has been parodied in pop culture many times, three times in The Simpsons:
- An episode titled "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
- The episode "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" features Abe Simpson remembering a moment during World War II when he had Hitler in his sights. He had muttered "Heh heh heh, now they'll never save your brain, Hitler" but the shot went astray through the clumsy intervention of fellow Hellfish squad member C. Montgomery Burns.
- In the episode "Marge Be Not Proud", one of the games in "Try-N-Save" is titled "Save Hitler's Brain"
- In the episode "A Clone of My Own" of the series Futurama, Farnsworth references this movie by saying "Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far."
