Here's a few from a colleague, Tony DiSanto, a theatre buff: Well, there's the obvious ones: you know, "Frankenstein," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." You could add "Flatliners" and "Jurassic Park" to the list, if you're of a mind to. You might not have thought of several Disney films: in "Pinocchio" you have the kindly old toymaker Gepetto, who could be seen to represent the Scientist as Child; in "Snow White," you have the Queen (who is actually an Alchemist, but after all it's a Fairy Tale, and this IS Disney); "The Little Mermaid" gives us another Alchemist in the form of Ursula the Sea-Witch; and in "Beauty and the Beast" Belle's father Maurice is a classic example of the bumbling inventor (European Folk and Fairy Tales are full of this stuff). Kubrick introduced some interesting variations on the theme in "Dr. Strangelove" (the title character, the Scientist as Fool), "2001: a Space Odyssey" (Dr. Floyd, as well as Bowman and Poole on board the Discovery) and in "A Clockwork Orange." Norman Bates in "Psycho" could be seen as a modernist variation of the classic Mad Scientist (don't forget his "hobby"). Joseph Mankiewicz's film of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Summer" features two interesting scientists, Dr. Cucrovicz (the lobotomist) and Dr. Hockstader. Frank Capra's "Arsenic and Old Lace" is full of witty variations on the theme: the Brewster Sisters, Jonathan Brewster, and of course Dr. Einstein (Peter Lorre at his best). Professor Van Helsing and Dr. Seward (in all the various versions of "Dracula") are probably too obvious to mention, but there you are. Another obvious one is "The Wizard of Oz." David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" features Anthony Hopkins in a shining example of the Scientist as Hero, while Karel Reisz's "The French Lieutenant's Woman" presents Jeremy Irons in another interesting variation on that theme (both are figures in the Frankenstein/Jekyll mode). Tim Burton's "Edward Scissorhands" has Vincent Price as a rather childlike Scientist. HTH .__ Brian Thornburg [log in to unmask] ._#|__ Toyota Video Production Lab 708-907-5978 .__|_____ Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy | 1500 W Sullivan Rd Aurora IL 60506-1000