Change of Mind (Cinerama Releasing) (1969)

CAST David Rowe... . 05s Raymond St. Jacques Judge FOrrest sc s:0 sis's's's 0's Larry Reynolds Margaret ROW... 6.5 6 ecees Susan Oliver ee See eT ae Poe ee ere Hope Clarke Elizabeth Dickson..... Janet MacLachlan Howard Culver. ....seces Rudy Challenger Gye i Tt Webbs. cack ekee ks Leslie Nielsen CHIGE. BAT IRIE ss ioc ica vi ceas Henry Ramer ROGG! MOr rOWi. si see ss Donnelly Rhodes Mayor: Fare dn ak een ued Franz Russell TOMY BENSON oi sks cee David Bailey Governor LaTourette........ Joseph Shaw PORNO es he eek eee Andre Womble Attorney Nash........ ..e.-9ydney Brown WSO CONG Gia sc aes Clarisse Taylor OY g OUNGEl sss ch eh be ae Tony Kamreither BEL CAMMUBES Scales oo oaks Jack Creley ia Pe rer Sener a a Ron Hartmann PUES ROWE. Ga kda es has aes Cosette Lee JUGGE SCSALGK, .i2s605 45 Murray Westgate PRODUCTION STAFF Ship as a) eee eee rae Robert Stevens Assistant Director....... Kris Paterson Produced DY. 5.5. kia kaw wees Seeleg Lester 4 (F355 . eer James Keeler and Richard Wesson WER UL COG CE? ocak oes ks Harold Maxfield Executive Producer..... Henry S. White 2 a ey Se re ee Frances Egan SOTORND TES O05 6c 5 6s cae Seeleg Lester MGR as tie cht Ce ea Shas ows Ken Brooke and Richard Wesson PN SLE Ck oe A we Joe Grimaldi pide a See ee OR eee Duke Ellington Production Controller........ Roy Krost Director of Photography... .d2s5 iss. Production Manager........ Clark Paylow ey Fa ee Arthur Ornitg, Aw 3. C. Processing and Sound Services......... Wardrobe Designer.......... BCE SOT TS eee Pathe Humphries of Canada LTD. TGs.) eee arr ee Donald Ginsberg EPMO eee ws bee Ra Wally Gentleman Technical Advisor....... Norrie Swanson SYNOPSIS David Rowe (RAYMOND ST. JACQUES), a white liberal, recovers from a brain transplant operation with no serious complications, except the massively difficult readjustment period in his career and in his life. His wife Margaret (SUSAN OLIVER), though sympathetic to his recovery, finds herself unable to fully accept him as her husband. He has a black body. The operation is over and reporters are huddled in the hospital waiting room for news of whether it is a success. They want to know what he is now; a white man in a black body...or a black man with a white brain. The doctor answers, ''David Rowe is what he always was--a human being.'' Once Rowe is recovering at home, a medical report states: ''...since the brain of David Rowe survives--the brain which reasons, has compassion, personality, loyalties and love, which has memory, instinct and sentience--then David Rowe, district attorney of Dorene County, survives--medically and legally." Rowe's mother, Angela Rowe (COSETTE LEE), has trouble accepting the change in her son. Near the end of his recovery, Rowe's assistant, Roger Morrow (DONNELLY RHODES), brings him his first case. The town's bigoted sheriff (LESLIE NIELSEN) has been charged with savagely murdering a young Negro girl. Rowe immediately returns to work despite pleas by his party's political boss Bill Chambers (JACK CRELEY) to leave well enough alone. Rowe also refuses an order by the State Governor (JOSEPH SHAW) to drop the case. Frustrated by the political pressure being exerted upon him, and because his wife cannot accept him fully as her husband, Rowe seeks out Elizabeth Dickson (JANET MacLACHLAN), wife of the man whose body he has received. Although he has visited her before and tried to offer help, this visit is different. He finds ‘her singing in a nightclub and becomes embroiled in a fight with her boss, then takes her home. She is attracted to him and he, frustrated by his own wife's rejection, begins to make love to her, but she cannot accept him. Chambers still insists Rowe's name will not be placed on the party roll for the coming election because of his color. Rowe lashes into his case against Sheriff Webb. He produces some extraordinary evidence and the result is suspensful and climactic. How he proceeds with the case and the surprises he uncovers affects not only the life of the man on trial, but David's own life, his marriage and his entire political and personal future.