"The Thing with Two Heads" question (Spoilers)

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Svengoolie showed the lovably ridiculous The Thing with Two Heads Saturday night, and it’s telling about my life that I watched the whole thing.

Well, basically the whole thing. Racist doctor Ray Milland gets his head transplanted onto the body of death row inmate Rosey Grier.

Lots of narratively wanting police car flips and pileups later, Rosey Grier gets Ray Milland’s head removed from his body. I turned away from the screen for maybe ten seconds and I heard Ray Milland’s friends find him, apparently attached to some other body. Ray Milland: “Phillip, find me another body.”

I look at the screen, and it’s cut over to Rosey Grier and his crew singing “Oh, Happy Day.” Roll credits.

I missed what Ray Milland’s head was attached to! What was it?

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I DVRed it Saturday night. Yet, despite having no life to speak of, I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. I’ll let you know the answer when I do…TRM

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Not attached to anything except a box, as far as I remember.

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DrF. got it.

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Really? Lame. I’d have had his head on a gorilla. Maybe not on the shoulders, either.

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I remember watching this at a friend’s sleepover on the late Saturday Night horror show in the 70s this was a really fun movie when you are 12. I love the scene when Ray starts getting control of the body and starts punching himself, or at least the Rosey Grier head in the face.

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Yep. Watched it tonight. Rosey’s friends (including the black, Mod-Squad-looking doctor who apparently did the deed) remove Milland’s head and leave it attached to a surgical blood-pumping machine. At least they didn’t just dump it in the trash. Apparently, this machine gave it not only the ability to not die, but also the power of speech to plead with them to find him a new body.

I was also rooting for him to be attached to the gorilla.

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Poor Ray Milland. After all the magnificent movies he did earlier in his career, the Oscar for Lost Weekend, etc, that it should come to this. I always fancy I detect a stunned disbelief in his eyes in this movie, almost bewildered. Where am I? What am I doing here? Do I really need the paycheck this badly?

Having said that, the movie’s a hoot. :slight_smile:

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The movie is so primitive looking, it’s hard to believe that it came out the same year as The Godfather.

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I love the line that Rosey’s girlfriend says in exasperation as she opens the door to discover her boyfriend’s got an extra head.

“You get into more shit!”

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At one point, she also asked him if there was anything else that he now had two of… :eek::eek: …TRM

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Last I saw him, Ray Milland’s head was at the end of a library shelf. He’s gone missing though.

He is… the lost bookend!

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They filmed an epilogue which did not match the quality of the rest of the film, so they destroyed all prints of it.

It was the lost weak end.

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The Thread with Two Puns.

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You guys are better writers than Svengoolie.

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I think I have the DVD of that (I hope I do!) where it’s matched with the far superior INCREDIBLE TWO-HEADED TRANSPLANT.