Directed, written and produced by Herbert J. Leder, this is all about Nazi scientist Dr. Norberg (Dana Andrews), who has taken over an English estate and is unfreezing soldiers that have been iced up for twenty years. What he gets are zombies like his brother (Edward Fox) and Elsa (Kathleen Breck), the best friend of his niece Jean (Anna Palk), who is now a living head. His commanding officers General Lubeck (Karel Stepanek) and Captain Tirptiz (Basil Henson) have been told he’s doing a great job but all he can freeze is the body and not the brain. He brings in American scientist Ted Roberts (Philip Gilbert) to help him, a man who is not aware that there are 1,500 frozen soldiers all over the world.
How did that smart man come in, see a wall of arms and a decapitated female head that is still alive and think, “Everything seems totally fine.”
Although The Frozen Dead was shot and released in UK theaters and on U.S. TV in color, the U.S. theatrical release prints of it were released in black-and-white in order to save money. It played double features with another Leder movie, It!
This is not the first movie I have seen where a disembodied female head just wants to die.
