Virginia Leith

A scientist's girlfriend is killed in a car crash. She is decapitated and he keeps her head alive while he hunts for a new body.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die -- A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.

Three bank robbers are about to pull a big heist on a small Arizona mining town, but first they spend time casing the town to get to know the various townsfolk. There's Shelley Martin, a man who is a disappointment to his son because he didn't serve in the war; a seemingly timid bank manager who is a peeping tom by night; an adulterous wife of a local leading citizen; and an Amish farmer who is forced to take violent action when his children are threatened by the criminals.

After a horrible accident, Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) rescues his fiancée, Jan (Virginia Leith), by keeping her disembodied head alive in a dish. Cortner hunts for the perfect female body for his love, but Jan wishes he'd just let her die. Soon, Jan develops telepathic powers and begins communicating with one of the doctor's failed experiments, a hideously deformed beast he stores under the stairs.