The Head
The Body is Gone... But The Head Lives On!
5.1(31) 1959-07-24 91 minScience FictionHorror
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
DirectorVictor Trivas
WriterVictor Trivas
ProducerWolf C. Hartwig
Original Music ComposerWilly Mattes
Original Music ComposerJacques Lasry
Cast & characters
Horst Frank
as Dr. Brandt
Karin Kernke
as Irene Sander
Michel Simon
as Prof. Dr. Abel
Helmut Schmid
as Bert Jaeger
Paul Dahlke
as Inspector Sturm
Dieter Eppler
as Paul Lerner
Kurt Müller-Graf
as Walter Burke
Christiane Maybach
as Stella
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Osman Ragheb
as Franz
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Maria Stadler
as Ms. Schneider
Barbara Valentin
as Dancer
Johannes Buzalski
as Beggar
