Summary
In a Faustian bargain etched by desperation, Donald Britt—a man possessing an 'unusual' cerebral constitution—barters posthumous dissection rights to his brain to the malevolent Dr. Bates. Facing financial ruin, Britt signs away his gray matter to the elderly professor, whose diabolical impatience festers as he calculates his own advanced age may outlast Britt's vitality. Thus commences a macabre race: Bates orchestrates fourteen episodic assaults on Britt’s life, transforming existence into a gauntlet of poisoned letters, sabotaged machinery, and midnight ambushes. Through collapsing mine shafts and explosive laboratories, Britt navigates each cliffhanger with escalating dread, his romance with Phyllis Charlton becoming both emotional anchor and tactical lifeline. The professor’s hubris culminates in a laboratory showdown where retribution arrives not via scalpel, but through poetic justice—a fatal plunge into his own experimental vat, a demise mirroring the grotesque curiosity he sought to impose.
Synopsis
Donald Britt (George Larkin) has an "unusal sort of brain" and induced by financial hardship, sells off the right to dissect his brain, AFTER his death, to a diabolical, scheming old professor, Dr. Bates (William Bechtel). But since the professor is many years older than Britt (with the Unusal Brain),and figures to outlive him, the anxious and unable-to-wait possessor holding the rights-to-dissect Britt's Unusal Brain, decides to hasten Britt's demise. Britt endures fourteen chapters of lurking peril, impending doom and hairbreadth cliffhangers before, with the aid of his sweetheart Phyllis Charlton (Anna Luther), the old professor meets his own untimely demise.
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