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The Man Who Changed His Mind

1936 film by Robert Stevenson

The Man Who Changed His Mind is a 1936 British film about a brilliant but unstable scientist experimenting with transferring minds, who becomes vengeful when his magnate patron withdraws his support.

Directed by Robert Stevenson. Written by John L. Balderston.

Dr. Laurience

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  • I was the leading surgeon in Genoa - the greatest authority upon the human brain, until I told them something about their own brains. Then they said I was mad. Look at me. Am I mad?
  • I meant my work to be given to the world to be used for the common good, but they wouldn't have it! They wouldn't believe me... they laughed. All right, I'll keep it for myself, and I'll use it for my own ends.
  • When you lie on your death-beds, I shall laugh at what you have refused!

Clayton

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  • The name is Clayton. One of the doctor's more hopeless cases. Come in!
  • Most of me is dead. The rest of me is damned.

Dialogue

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Dr. Clare Wyatt: You didn't like me coming here, didn't you?
Clayton: You don't like me!
Dr. Clare Wyatt: I'm sorry for you.
Clayton: I wonder which revolts you most - my miserable body or my perverted mind.
Clayton: This may amuse you. [gives Laurience a newspaper with a gossipy article about his experiments.]
Dr. Laurience: You told them all this!
Clayton: Me? Why me?
Dr. Laurience: How should I know? Your mind is just as twisted as your body. Don't forget, if I leave out one injection...
Clayton: I don't mind dying, but to be accused of journalism!
Dr. Clare Wyatt: Why did you send for me? You might have had an experienced scientist.
Dr. Laurience: I don't want experienced scientists. Their minds are set. Like trains they run only to the terminus and back again to the beginning. and back. But I remember you in Genoa. You were so young. You had faith in what was new and courage to face things, and now you shall work with me here, and I shall show you strange things about the mind of man. You will follow me without fear.
Dr. Clare Wyatt: Without fear.

Cast

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