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(1972)
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Christopher 'Barking Mad' Walken in his first leading role.
In this, his first leading role, Christopher Walken plays a misfit G.I. who finds himself as a guinea pig in a bizarre brain research experiment. A compelling tale of mind-numbing drugs, boisterous soldiers and a sinister German scientist.
Hailed as "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" meets "A Clockwork Orange", The Mind Snatchers is adapted from the Broadway play "The Happiness Cage" and features a very young Walken, showing his early talent for spontaneous menace, giving a chilling performance as Private James Reese who has his mental stability stolen from him. It seems that Walken never really got it back as he went on to build an illustrious film career playing killers, gangsters and plain barking mad psychos.
Reese is a constant offender, sociopathic bordering on schizophrenic. His wild behaviour means he has inadvertently caught the attention of the army shrinks who have sinister plans for him. A German scientist, Dr. Frederick (Joss Ackland) is working on a way to pacify overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centres of the brain.
Reese is 'volunteered' by his superiors for the secret medical experiment and finds himself in a military hospital. There are two other patients, only one of whom, Sgt. Boford Miles (Ronny Cox), can speak. Reese's attempts to discover the nature of the experiment are unsuccessful - he knows that Miles and the other patient have fatal diseases, and that the work has been sanctioned by The Major (Ralph Meeker) but when enlightenment finally comes, Reese wishes he had been kept from the truth after all.
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BFI Classification:
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
| Release Date: | 01/10/2001 |
| Production Year: | 1972 |
| Run Time: | 94 minutes |
| Aspect Ratio: | Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3 |
| Format: | Pal |
| Colour: | Colour |
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