The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
BRAWN vs. BRAIN
A lighthearted 1960s family comedy about a brilliant teenage inventor whose well-intentioned experiments with mind-reading and hypnosis create comic chaos and legal entanglements.
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.
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