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* MadScientist: Dr. Lurience's home lab, where he appears to swapping minds between bodies using a Jacob's ladder. His new lab at the Haselwood Institute looks far more high-tech and antiseptic, even if it performs the same function.
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* MadScientist: MadScientistLaboratory: Dr. Lurience's home lab, where he appears to swapping minds between bodies using a Jacob's ladder. His new lab at the Haselwood Institute looks far more high-tech and antiseptic, even if it performs the same function.
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* GasChamber: After switching Dick's mind into his body, Dr. Laurience starts filling the chamber his body is in in to kill Dick.
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne:
-->'''Clayton:''' This may amuse you.\\
''[gives Laurience a newspaper with a gossipy article about his experiments.]''\\
'''Dr. Laurience:''' You told them all this!\\
'''Clayton:''' Me? Why me?\\
'''Dr. Laurience:''' How should I know? Your mind is just as twisted as your body. Don't forget, if I leave out one injection...\\
'''Clayton:''' I don't mind dying, but to be accused of journalism!
-->'''Clayton:''' This may amuse you.\\
''[gives Laurience a newspaper with a gossipy article about his experiments.]''\\
'''Dr. Laurience:''' You told them all this!\\
'''Clayton:''' Me? Why me?\\
'''Dr. Laurience:''' How should I know? Your mind is just as twisted as your body. Don't forget, if I leave out one injection...\\
'''Clayton:''' I don't mind dying, but to be accused of journalism!
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* ServileSnarker: Clayton is TheIgor to Dr. Laurience, but knowing that he could die at moment, combined with the fact that no one else will work for the eccentric Laurience, allows him to be extremely sarcastic to his employer (and everyone else).
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* TheIgor: Dr. Laurience's lab assistant (and CrustyCaretaker) is Clayton; an EvilCripple confined to wheelchair and suffering from a condition that could kill him at any time, who is working for Laurience in exchange for [[WorkingForABodyUpgrade having his mind transferred into a healthy body]].
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* TheyCalledMeMad: Dr. Laurience is already obsessed with proving his technique for swapping the mind and soul between bodies, but is driving into becoming a full-blown MadScientist when a council of Britain's greatest scientific minds reject his theory as insane.
-->'''Dr. Laurience:''' I was the leading surgeon in Genoa - the greatest authority upon the human brain, until I told them something about their own brains. Then they said I was mad. Look at me. Am I mad?
-->'''Dr. Laurience:''' I was the leading surgeon in Genoa - the greatest authority upon the human brain, until I told them something about their own brains. Then they said I was mad. Look at me. Am I mad?
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* OldDarkHouse: Dr. Laurience is conducting his research in a decaying, isolated manor house in the country. The local cabbie refuses to take Clare to the door; instead dropping her off some distance away from the house.
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* MadScientist: Dr. Laurience. Already obsessed with the idea of transferring souls between bodies, he descends into full insanity when the scientific community rejects his theories and literally laughs him out of the room.
* MadScientist: Dr. Lurience's home lab, where he appears to swapping minds between bodies using a Jacob's ladder. His new lab at the Haselwood Institute looks far more high-tech and antiseptic, even if it performs the same function.
* MadScientist: Dr. Lurience's home lab, where he appears to swapping minds between bodies using a Jacob's ladder. His new lab at the Haselwood Institute looks far more high-tech and antiseptic, even if it performs the same function.
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* EvilCripple: Clayton, TheIgor to Dr. Laurience, is a bitter wheelchair-bound old man who is WorkingForABodyUpgrade.
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* ImposterForgetOneDetail: Dr. Laurience transfers his mind into Dick Haslewood's body. However, he doesn't know that Dick doesn't smoke, so when Dr. Wyatt sees him chain-smoking she realises the truth.
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* ImposterForgetOneDetail: ImposterForgotOneDetail: Dr. Laurience transfers his mind into Dick Haslewood's body. However, he doesn't know that Dick doesn't smoke, so when Dr. Wyatt sees him chain-smoking she realises the truth.
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* FreakyFridayFlip: Dr. Laurience develops a means of swapping the minds and souls of people. After testing it on chimpanzees, he uses it to transfer the mind of [[TheIgor his assistant]] Clayton from his wheelchair-bound body into the body of Lord Haslewood. He then uses it to swap bodies with Dick Haslewood.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Dick--in Laurience’s body--manages to escape a deadly gas chamber and falls out of a window, breaking all his bones.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Dr. Laurience develops a means of swapping the minds and souls of people. After testing it on chimpanzees, he uses it to transfer the mind of [[TheIgor his assistant]] Clayton from his wheelchair-bound body into the body of Lord Haslewood. He then uses it to swap bodies with Dick
* ImposterForgetOneDetail: Dr. Laurience transfers his mind into Dick Haslewood's body. However, he doesn't know that Dick doesn't smoke, so when Dr. Wyatt sees him chain-smoking she realises the truth.
* MadnessMontage: After being laughed out of the auditorium by the scientific community, and Lord Haslewood cuts off his funding, there is a montage showing Dr. Laurience's rapid descent into insanity.
* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: Clayton works as TheIgor to Dr. Laurience in exchange for having his mind swapped from his wheelchair-bound form into a young healthy body one Laurience succeeds.
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''The Man Who Changed His Mind'' (a.k.a. ''The Brainsnatcher'', ''The Man Who Lived Again'' and ''Doctor Maniac'') is a 1936 British science fiction horror film starring Creator/BorisKarloff, Anna Lee and Creator/JohnLoder. It was directed by Creator/RobertStevenson and produced by Gainsborough Pictures.
Dr. Laurience (Karloff) is a MadScientist who has successfully devised a method for transferring the mind and soul of one person into the of another. However, his discovery is treated with derision and ridicule by the scientific community, who refuse to believe it. Deciding to use his discovery for his own ends, and to win the love of his young laboratory assistant, Dr. Clare Wyatt (Lee), Laurience transfers his mind into the body of journalist Dick Haslewood (Loder); the man Clare loves.
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* FreakyFridayFlip: Dr. Laurience develops a means of swapping the minds and souls of people. After testing it on chimpanzees, he uses it to transfer the mind of [[TheIgor his assistant]] Clayton from his wheelchair-bound body into the body of Lord Haslewood. He then uses it to swap bodies with Dick Haslewood.
Dr. Laurience (Karloff) is a MadScientist who has successfully devised a method for transferring the mind and soul of one person into the of another. However, his discovery is treated with derision and ridicule by the scientific community, who refuse to believe it. Deciding to use his discovery for his own ends, and to win the love of his young laboratory assistant, Dr. Clare Wyatt (Lee), Laurience transfers his mind into the body of journalist Dick Haslewood (Loder); the man Clare loves.
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* FreakyFridayFlip: Dr. Laurience develops a means of swapping the minds and souls of people. After testing it on chimpanzees, he uses it to transfer the mind of [[TheIgor his assistant]] Clayton from his wheelchair-bound body into the body of Lord Haslewood. He then uses it to swap bodies with Dick Haslewood.
