Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
Jeffrey Hunter
- Jim Grayam
- (as Jeff Hunter)
Kathie Browne
- Angie DeWitt
- (as Kathie Brown)
Victoria Paige Meyerink
- Julie Benson
- (as Victoria Meyerink)
Leon Alton
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Tom Anfinsen
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
David Armstrong
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThere are several connections with the cast and crew: Dana Andrews and Jeffrey Hunter appeared in The Frogman together, in 1951... Hunter played Andrews' character in Lure Of The Wilderness, which was a remake of Swamp Water... Dana Andrews and Anne Francis had worked together twice: In The Crowded Sky (as pilot and flight attendant) and The Satan Bug (as father and daughter)... Jeffrey Hunter was directed by William Conrad in The Man From Galveston... And Viveca Lindfors played Pilate's wife in King of Kings, where Hunter played Jesus Christ.
- GoofsWhen Dr. Larstadt is looking at the x-rays of what is supposedly Grayam's skull, the films are clearly not all of the same person. Note the different dental work in the last two images, for example.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Trailer Trauma 2: Drive-in Monsterama (2016)
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Trying to game the system of criminal insanity
I do some court monitoring volunteering and a few years back I sat in on a murder
case where a 19 year killed a 60 something man with whom he was having a
sexual relationship with. During the course of the trial this kid gave certain
answers to the court appointed scientist that he thought would help his case. As
the perpetrator was high school drop out with a GED he wasn't fooling any shrink.
But that's what Jeffrey Hunter tries to do in Brainstorm. Hunter is a top scientist working for billionaire industrialist Dana Andrews. Hunter one nights saves Anne Francis who is the wife of Andrews from a suicide attempt. Risks his own life to do it.
Andrews is a cruel and vicious man and Hunter falls for Francis. Like the way Barbara Stanwyck lures Fred MacMurray into her murder scheme, Francis gets entrapped in her scheme and goes one better in that Hunter thinks it's all his idea.
Like my GED case Hunter being a most educated man figures he can game the insanity defense system. He does to some extent, but the end results are not what he bargained for.
I was pleasantly surprised by this film, mainly because Dana Andrews was doing a lot of mediocre films at this point so I wasn't expecting much from Brainstorm. But I found it refreshingly original, written and directed by actor William Conrad who had a nice sense of style. Jeffrey Hunter was really great in the part of the luckless lead. Kudos also go to Viveca Lindfors as a consulting psychiatrist.
The scenes with Hunter in the insane asylum are really freaky and bizarre. I expected to see Olivia DeHavilland and Dr. Kick come in the ward. The scenes were right of The Snake Pit. Strother Martin is one of the patients and he's memorable too.
And the ending is one for the books. Definitely if you're a fan of any of the players I mentioned you should see this film.
But that's what Jeffrey Hunter tries to do in Brainstorm. Hunter is a top scientist working for billionaire industrialist Dana Andrews. Hunter one nights saves Anne Francis who is the wife of Andrews from a suicide attempt. Risks his own life to do it.
Andrews is a cruel and vicious man and Hunter falls for Francis. Like the way Barbara Stanwyck lures Fred MacMurray into her murder scheme, Francis gets entrapped in her scheme and goes one better in that Hunter thinks it's all his idea.
Like my GED case Hunter being a most educated man figures he can game the insanity defense system. He does to some extent, but the end results are not what he bargained for.
I was pleasantly surprised by this film, mainly because Dana Andrews was doing a lot of mediocre films at this point so I wasn't expecting much from Brainstorm. But I found it refreshingly original, written and directed by actor William Conrad who had a nice sense of style. Jeffrey Hunter was really great in the part of the luckless lead. Kudos also go to Viveca Lindfors as a consulting psychiatrist.
The scenes with Hunter in the insane asylum are really freaky and bizarre. I expected to see Olivia DeHavilland and Dr. Kick come in the ward. The scenes were right of The Snake Pit. Strother Martin is one of the patients and he's memorable too.
And the ending is one for the books. Definitely if you're a fan of any of the players I mentioned you should see this film.
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- Jan 16, 2019
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- Das teuflische Spiel
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- Hollywood Burbank Airport - 2627 North Hollywood Way, Burbank, California, USA(Benson gets off his plane from Washington, DC - then known as Lockheed Air Terminal)
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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