Donovan's Brain is a 1953 film starring
Lew Ayres and future U.S.
First Lady Nancy Davis. Based on the 1942 horror novel
Donovan's Brain by
Curt Siodmak, the film's story revolves around an attempt to keep alive the
brain of millionaire megalomaniac W.H. Donovan after an otherwise fatal plane crash, but the brain starts to possess people.