The Thing with Two Heads
★ 5 · 1972 · 91m · Comedy · Science Fiction
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.
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