The Mind Benders
When the dark side of the mind is opened, can it ever be closed again? A government scientist commits suicide while clutching a briefcase full of cash, and the police accuse him of being a Communist spy. But when his friend Dr. Henry Longman (Dirk Bogarde) suspects that the death may have been the result of brainwashing, he decides to prove his theory by subjecting himself to sensory deprivation. Can the doctor resist the experiment's sadistic side effects or will he fall under the control ofThe Mind Benders?Mary Ure and John Clements star in this classic 1963 sci-fi thriller directed by Basil Dearden (The Man Who Haunted Himself) that went on to influence bothAltered StatesandThe Manchurian Candidate.