The Brain/Ein Toter Sucht Seinen Morder (1962) German DVD

[Tim_Rogerson]

Title: The Brain aka Vengeance aka Ein Toter Sucht Seinen Morder
Country: Germany
Region: 2
Releasing Studio: Pidax
Case Type: Standard
Aspect Ratio: 1:66:1
Anamorphic?: Y
PAL or NTSC?: Pal
Soundtracks: German Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Subtitles (are they optional?): None
Cuts: (and if you know it, precise run time) (80:10) Pal - German version (see below)
Commentaries: None
Extras: None
Notes:
English/German co-production shot simultaneously in English/German versions. This is German version, Ein Toter Sucht Seinen Morder, with same running time approx but numerous editorial differences versus English version (not yet released on DVD but released on VHS by Encore in UK in 1995)
Easter Eggs: None
Amazon ASIN (US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, or Spain):B007R36KDO
Source:* I own it

[Tim_Rogerson]

Note sure how much of this is useful/will be posted but....

Based on the SF novel Donovan's Brain directed by Freddie Francis and made in the UK in 1962 in both German and English versions (like The Devil's Daffodil and Traitor's Gate which were made by the same companies). I have the VHS of the English version and the German version on DVD is an alternate edit:

* In the English version Miles Malleson plays a doctor but Malleson's two scenes have been reshot with a German actor taking his place in the German version
* The German version contains a unique 4m sequence set by a lake which exists because the killer is a different person in the German version and this sets up that person's motive
* The climatic unmasking-of-the-killer scene in an office has been reshot with this person present - as that person is the killer in this version - rather than another secondary character.
* The German version restores about 15s of (very) minor cuts to several scenes made to the English version for an 'A' rating by the BBFC
* To maintain a similar running time to the English version, the German version trims a number of scenes and also deletes the last scene of the film in the English version in the back of a car between Peter van Eyck and a secondary person since that refers to the killer in the English version.

[Eric_Cotenas]

Added.