“ | I'm still the same old lovable character I always was... | ” |
- Steve March |
- For the Mads production, see MADS - The Brain from Planet Arous.
The Brain from Planet Arous is a 1957 American horror film directed by Nathan Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz).
Plot[]
A human scientist is possessed by an evil alien brain. Another brain from the same planet works with the scientist's fiancee to save the Earth.
Cast[]
- John Agar - Steve March
- Joyce Meadows - Sally Fallon
- Robert Fuller - Dan Murphy
- Kenneth Terrell - Colonel
- Thomas Browne Henry - John Fallon
- Tim Graham - Sheriff Wiley Payne
Notes[]
- Joyce Meadows returned to the role of Sally Fallon in the short film Not the Same Old Brain, which was included on the Blu-ray/DVD release of The Brain from Planet Arous from The Film Detective.
Riffed Versions[]
Also used on Movie Macabre starring Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
- The Mads Are Back, Live show and livestream, November 17th, 2020
- RiffTrax, 2024
MST3K Connections[]
- Director Nathan Juran was also director for The Deadly Mantis.
- Writer Ray Buffum was also writer for Teen-Age Crime Wave.
- John Agar also portrayed Dr. Farrell in Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Dr. Clete Ferguson in Revenge of the Creature, and Dr. Roger Bentley in The Mole People.
- Joyce Meadows also portrayed Carrie Anders in The Girl in Lovers Lane.
- Thomas Browne Henry also portrayed Colonel Tom Sturgeon in Beginning of the End and Captain Fletcher in The Thing That Couldn't Die.
- Actor and stuntman Kenneth Terrell was also a stuntman in Radar Men from the Moon (as well as portraying a henchman) and Indestructible Man (as well as portraying Joe Marcelli).
- Bill Giorgio (Russian) also portrayed Deputy Saunders in Earth vs the Spider and a bus driver in War of the Colossal Beast.
- Kenner G. Kemp (military man at meeting) also portrayed Jim the Bailiff in Untamed Youth and a guest in the observation room in Space Travelers.
- Composer Walter Greene was also stock music composer for First Spaceship on Venus (for which he was also music editor), Hercules and the Captive Women (U.S. version), The Human Duplicators, and Girls Town.
- Makeup artist Jack Pierce was also makeup artist for The Amazing Transparent Man and makeup director for The Brute Man.
- Property master Richard M. Rubin was also property master for Attack of the Giant Leeches and Bloodlust!
- Sound technician Philip Mitchell also did sound for It Conquered the World, Teenage Cave Man and The Unearthly, as well as being sound mixer for Bloodlust!.