The Mind Benders (1963)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig
Synopsis:
Scientists at Oxford University experimenting on the effects of sensory deprivation stumble across a potential mechanism for brainwashing foreign agents.
Review:
Decently made but rather silly exploration into the ethics of science and national security, which descends into the melodrama of whether or not Bogarde will ever love his wife again. You know what's coming when she announces to Bryant in Act One that she is in love (after twelve years and four kids) - Ure here playing a cross between Alison Porter and what she would herself soon become, a baby-making machine for Robert Shaw.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig
Synopsis:
Scientists at Oxford University experimenting on the effects of sensory deprivation stumble across a potential mechanism for brainwashing foreign agents.
Review:
Decently made but rather silly exploration into the ethics of science and national security, which descends into the melodrama of whether or not Bogarde will ever love his wife again. You know what's coming when she announces to Bryant in Act One that she is in love (after twelve years and four kids) - Ure here playing a cross between Alison Porter and what she would herself soon become, a baby-making machine for Robert Shaw.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig
Synopsis:
Scientists at Oxford University experimenting on the effects of sensory deprivation stumble across a potential mechanism for brainwashing foreign agents.
Review:
Decently made but rather silly exploration into the ethics of science and national security, which descends into the melodrama of whether or not Bogarde will ever love his wife again. You know what's coming when she announces to Bryant in Act One that she is in love (after twelve years and four kids) - Ure here playing a cross between Alison Porter and what she would herself soon become, a baby-making machine for Robert Shaw.