Brainstorm
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
Cast & crew
Richard Kiel
Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
Fred Fisher
Party Guest (uncredited)
John Roy
Spectator (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Attorney (uncredited)
Steve Carruthers
Executive (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Johnny Kern
Party Guest (uncredited)
Monty O'Grady
Executive (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Executive (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Lawyer (uncredited)
Byron Keith
Guard (uncredited)
John Mitchum
Guitar-Playing Inmate (uncredited)
Jimmie Horan
Party Guest (uncredited)
William Meader
Party Guest (uncredited)
James Seay
Judge at Scavenger Hunt (uncredited)
James J. Casino
Party Guest (uncredited)
Joe Evans
Inmate (uncredited)
Robert Locke Lorraine
Party Guest (uncredited)
Paul Ravel
Inmate (uncredited)
Hal Taggart
Man at Sanity Hearing (uncredited)
Biff Elliot
Detective (uncredited)
Bill Quinn
Psychiatrist at Sanity Hearing (uncredited)
Viveca Lindfors
Dr. Elizabeth Larstadt
Stephen Roberts
Judge
William Conrad
Mental Patient (uncredited)
Duke Fishman
Inmate (uncredited)
Stacy Harris
Josh Reynolds
Lloyd Kino
Mr. Komato (uncredited)
Jeffrey Hunter
Jim Grayam
Ray Montgomery
Charlie the Gate Guard (uncredited)
David Armstrong
Party Guest (uncredited)
Roberto Contreras
Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
Anne Francis
Lorrie Benson
Leon Alton
Spectator (uncredited)
Anthony Redondo
Reporter (uncredited)
Strother Martin
Mr. Clyde
Steve Ihnat
Dr. Copeland (uncredited)
George Pelling
Butler
Dana Andrews
Cort Benson
Michael Pate
Dr. Mills
Tom Anfinsen
Party Guest (uncredited)
Isabel Cooley
Nurse (uncredited)
Kathie Browne
Angie DeWitt
Phillip Pine
Dr. Ames
Robert McQueeney
Sgt. Dawes
Joan Swift
Clara
Victoria Paige Meyerink
Julie Benson
Pat Cardi
Bobby
Harry Bartell
Detective (uncredited)
Suzanne Benoit
Nurse (uncredited)
Donald Chaffin
Orderly (uncredited)
Barbara Dodd
Party Guest (uncredited)
William Duffy
Orderly (uncredited)
Pamelyn Ferdin
Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)
Elaine Martone
Party Guest (uncredited)
Charles Maxwell
Insane Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
Joseph Mell
Insane Inmate with Flowers (uncredited)
George N. Neise
Party Guest (uncredited)
James O'Hara
Party Guest (uncredited)
Victor Rodman
Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
Wendy Russell
Party Guest (uncredited)
Alfred Shelly
Detective (uncredited)
Julie Van Zandt
Mother (uncredited)
Maurice Wells
Judge (uncredited)
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
This is probably the most complex role I ever saw Jeff (no - rey) Hunter ever undertake, and he's actually not at all bad. He is "Grayam", a man who comes to the aid of the slightly inebriated wife of his boss. "Lorrie" (Anne Francis) is considerably more grateful than her husband "Benson" (Dana Andrews) and it soon becomes clear that she has the hots for him and he, however reluctantly at first, is beginning to reciprocate. Pretty swiftly they are having an affair and rather curiously her husband seems to know all about it and care not a jot. He knows his wife will never leave her wealthy and confortable life - he plays a manipulative game and he plays it well. To thwart this, the two come up with a plan to eliminate "Benson" in plain sight and to cleverly orchestrate the scenario so as to allow his use of a plea of insanity. He sows the seeds well, gradually convincing all around him that he's not the full shilling before... What he didn't really reckon on though was the fickleness of "Lorrie" and the adeptness of the court-appointed psychiatrist "Larstadt" (Viveca Lindfors) who plays well here as the doctor who clearly knows how to play this game of intellectual cat and mouse every bit as well as her quarry. It's perhaps a little too long - too much time is spent on the establishment scenes, but Hunter, Francis and Lindfors are effective here as William Conrad gradually builds this into a sophisticated psychological drama that twists and turns nicely before a denouement that I found to be suitably pathetic. It's rarely seen these days, and may be a bit tame by 21st century standards, but it is a strong and characterful story that is well delivered and well worth a watch.