The Mind of Mr. Soames is a 1970 British-American sci-fi–drama film directed by Alan Cooke and starring Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn and Nigel Davenport about a man who awakens from a 30-year coma with an immature brain.

Now revived, he shows the behaviour of a child and is monitored by two doctors attempting to find out if he can be rehabilitated into the adult world.

One English doctor, Dr. Maitland, is only interested in educational activities and he works John until he stops interacting and refuses to eat.

Another doctor, the American Dr. Bergen suggests play for its own sake would have benefits and he brings a bouncy ball into John's room.

Eventually, John is allowed outside into the natural world by Dr. Bergen and he delights in it, drinking water from a pool by dipping his head in.

The men talk to him a great deal but John has fewer words, and although he appears to understand, when he is told to wait six months until he goes outside again, he does not know how long that will be.

A woman offers him a drink, a glass of bitter that John spits out on the floor that attracts intense attention from the pub crawlers.

The woman wants to take him to a hospital but the man says they'll call the police (he has been drinking), so they drive John to their house.

The Mind of Mr. Soames was an attempt by Amicus Productions to branch into the non-horror field (they had also tried to option the rights to Flowers for Algernon but had been unable to secure them).

But with each scene, each camera movement, each gesture from its large and dispirited cast, The Mind of Mr. Soames (...) displays an emptiness and a falseness of response that is beneath even the inadequacy of its ideas and the banality of its plot.

"Hal Erickson of Rovi wrote, on Rotten Tomatoes: "The Mind of Mr. Soames can be described as a melodramatic Charly.

Doctor Bergen (Robert Vaughn) attempts to revitalise Soames by transplanting an infant's brain in the patient's head.

When Soames awakens, he has the mental capacity of a baby, but Dr. Bergen is certain that he can accelerate the maturation process, which he does in a matter of weeks.

Adapted from a novel by Charles Eric Maine, The Mind of Mr. Soames raises more questions than it can possibly answer, but works well on the level of solid science fiction.