Karloff came to Britain again to play Dr Laurience, a scientist who has found a way to transfer the mind from one brain to another as demonstrated to his new assistant Clare and mortally ill dependant Clayton ( Donald Calthrop ) . Her boyfriend's father , a press baron Lord Haslewood ( Frank Cellier ) becomes his patron but turns against him when the scientific community rubbishes his ideas. Now unhinged Laurience proves his idea true by switching the minds of Haslewood and Clayton.
This is entertaining stuff , with a fair dose of humour. Cellier and Calthrop are excellent at impersonating each other , making the film a precursor of Face Off. It's also noteworthy that Clare is a plucky , resourceful girl who rescues her boyfriend rather than vice versa. It is let down by a rather obvious plothole in the climax though.
Anna Lee ( as Clare )
Sex : No but she doesn't wear a bra for much of the film
Death : Survives
Anna was originally Joan Winnifrith from Kent. She was the wife of the film's director Robert Stevenson and appeared in many British films in the thirties. They relocated to Hollywood just before the War. Anna kept working into her nineties with a popular role on the US soap General Hospital. She died in 2004 aged 91.
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