Great Sci-Fi Classics, Vol. 2
Platinum (1954)
Science Fiction
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096009123291
362 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Leslie Daniel
Herb Evers
Adele Lamont
Virginia Leith
Great Sci-Fi Classics
Director
Joseph Green

- The Brain That Wouldn't Die (92 min.) - 1962
After a car crash, a man keeps his wife's head alive in his laboratory. As if this weren't enough, an evil beast pounds and screams from a locked room adjacent to the lab.

The unethical surgeon Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evers) is developing a technique of transplantation of organs and members using a serum against rejection. When he has a car accident with his girlfriend Jan Compton (Virginia Leith), he saves her head only, and tries to find a woman with a beautiful body to transplant Jan's head against her will.

Brilliant but borderline psychotic surgeon does secretive, experimental work with limb transplants and tissue rejection drugs, much to the chagrin of his surgeon-father. When he crashes his car and his fiancee is decapitated, his research - far from complete - is put to the test. His focus then becomes finding an appropriate donor body to make his fiancee whole, while the current and failed experiments in his basement laboratory grow restless.


- The Amazing Transparent Man (58 min.) - 1960
Paul Krenner, an ex-major with delusions of grandeur, has forced scientist Peter Ulof to develop a radiation-based technique to turn men invisible, with which process he plans to create an invisible army to sell to the highest bidder. He busts safecracker Joey Faust out of prison and forces him to undergo the invisibility treatment so he can steal more radium to further the experimentation. Plans go awry when Faust discovers there is a side-effect to the invisibility treatments he didn't count on.


- The Giant Gila Monster (74 min.) - 1959
A couple of teenagers are reported missing in a small Texas town, and it is thought they eloped until their bodies are found in a ravine. Sheriff Jeff turns to his friend, Clarence Winstead, a garage mechanic and leader of a hot-rod gang for help. A series of tragic motor accidents occur and it becomes apparent that a giant gila monster is roaming the area and depleting the town of its hot-rodding teen-agers. And might have plans on attending the BIG record-hop party.

A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chopming on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.


- The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues (80 min.) - 1955
An unusual radioactive rock on the sea bottom mutates the ocean life into a horrible monster. When charred, radioactive bodies begin to drift ashore a scientist and government agent investigate the phenomenon, and it's connection to a local marine biology professor.

A professor works for an oceanography college on the Pacific coast. He has a daughter. A series of fishermen deaths are reported. A government investigator---not the FBI---and a scientist show up. They soon discover an unexplained source of atomic power on the ocean floor that is guarded by a strange monster. The scientist learns from the professor's secretary that his experiments have something to do with the strange monster. The agent learns that negotiations to sell the atomic inventions, and the very strange monster, to a foreign power are underway. The secretary is killed by the professor's assistant, who has been seeking to turn over the atomic-secrets to a foreign power. The agent discovers the assistant's activities and arrests the assistant and the foreign agent. A ship explodes off the coast. The professor now---just now?--realizes that the undersea weapon and the strange monster are a danger to humanity. The professor dives into the sea with intent to blow up the weapon with dynamite. The monster grabs him and the professor, the strange monster and the atomic weapon are all blown up. Finis.


- Killers From Space (80 min.) - 1954
A group of extra-terrestrials determined to take over the earth and make it their new home,station themselves in a canyon and set about their task. They begin with nuclear scientist Doug Martin (Peter Graves) by way of mind control and force him to engage in acts of spying and sabotage. When it dawns upon the scientist what is happening, he attempts warn others but without success. Martin, in a fit of heroism, swears to take the aliens out, regardless of the price he has to pay - even if it means his own life.
Edition Details
Edition Great Sci-Fi Classics Vol. 2
Release Date 8/5/2003
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1