THE HEAD (1959) ¢ 1/2
D: Victor Trivas
Horst Frank, Karin Kernke, Helmut Schmid,
Dieter Eppler, Christiane Maybach, Michel Simon
A horror cheapie about a mad doctor who grafts the head of a hunchback onto the body of a stripper. Made in Germany and dubbed in English, with some jagged cutting whenever it's about to become the least bit risqué. Whether those edits were the work of a zealous censor or a projectionist adding to his stash of stolen clips is hard to say, and it's possible there are prints around that don't contain the cuts. Writer/director Victor Trivas got an Oscar nomination for writing Orson Welles' "The Stranger" (1946), and production designer Hermann Warm was the guy behind those weird sets in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919).
