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Master Minds (1949)

Master Minds poster
Directed by
Jean Yarbrough
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 04m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man who can see the future works at a carnival sideshow. A mad scientist kidnaps him to put his brain into a monster.

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What happens

Master Minds is a 1949 American comedy horror film by Monogram Pictures. It is the sixteenth film in The Bowery Boys series. In the film, a man gains the ability of precognition. He uses it perform at a sideshow carnival. He is soon kidnapped by a mad scientist who wants to use him in a brain transplantation experiment. The man's brain is scheduled to be transferred into the scientist's version of Frankenstein's monster. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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