his head is a silver egg

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i. it is a movie
ii. he is a top us scientist horrible injured in a plane crash over the soviet union
iii. russian surgeons save him but replace his head with a silver egg
iv. fully recovered, he is returning to his sensitive job high in us military-scientific research
v. but his head is a silver egg, so how do we know if he is who he says, or...
vi ... a spy?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

a. does this movie exist?
b. what is its name?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Either D.A.R.Y.L. or Babe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark, I love your silver egg head.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 March 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072405

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 17 March 2003 01:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

wintermute i kiss you

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 March 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks ago i described this film to my friend k*n h*llings — who has seen every rub film evah — and he said: "haha mark this is surely the grebtest film of all time, therefore you made it up"

and i began to wonder if i had...

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 March 2003 11:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

It is a fave of my dad's too. It's from a book by Algis Budrys (grebt name!)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 17 March 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

i read the book, it had the "movie tie-in" cover. is the film any good. i heard they changed the end quite drastically.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 17 March 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

you mean where they tap him open with a big spoon and dip toast soldiers into his runny yellow brane?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 March 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got the book from the description (I have an old orange and black Penguin edition), but I can't remember if I've seen the film.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 March 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Has anyone read Budris' Rogue Moon? I was quite taken with that book at one time.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 17 March 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elliot Gould is in this?? that taken with mark s' summary means this is a must see

― H (Heruy), Monday, 17 March 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

the best thing is it's called "who?"

- "so what do think of dave now?"
- "WHO?"
- "dude, the egg guy"
- "oh him"

― zemko (bob), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

also the cinematographer is called PETRUS SCHLOEMP: this is an excellent name

gwan say it: schloemp, schloemp

― zemko (bob), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

six years pass...

How can I get a copy of this movie

― Can't stop the dancing chickens (dyao), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Thought this might be about https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cJQ3NZRkL.jpg

Who? is in one volume of the Library of America's American Science Fiction collection.

― The Professor of Hard Rain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 July 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link

Currently available on DVD in the UK under this much more mundane title:

https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51OReWSiHAL._AC_UL320_SR226,320_.jpg

― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Monday, 25 July 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link

hurrah!

(title is better but still terrible)

― mark s, Monday, 25 July 2016 08:47 (seven years ago) link

four years pass...

You may need an egg breaker machine. For more information, please contact: https://www.dinneregg.com/.

― eggbreaker, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link

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