A meek, unassuming school teacher, Harold, is beleaguered by thoughts of inadequacy and inferiority. He feels like a failure and unaccomplished. He is married to an unhappy, frustrated spouse who badgers him on his mediocrity. But then, along comes an opportunity for notoriety.
The government needs to corral distant asteroids and other outer space sources of minerals and potential energy producing materials. The problem is how to retrieve the immense, unwieldy objects. It seems that after an earlier brain operation, Harold has been granted the ability to manipulate matter through his focused attention. After demonstrating his abilities in a government office by lifting and moving a 1000 pound meteorite it is determined that his brain has The Right Stuff. The embedded brain device, when properly employed, can literally move mountains. With his assistance, the plan is to implant the device in a stout young astronaut and get him in a space vehicle close enough to a mineral source to manipulate it.
Even with this successful government service, things aren’t turning around for Harold. His wife is dismissive of his efforts and his former boss hinders his ability to fully pursue this new passion of his. The continued, mounting frustration of his dilemma foments angry, aggressive emotions which unfortunately, trigger his super mental powers and he levels them against those who get in his way.
Harold is played convincingly by Donald Pleasance who we all know as our favorite doctor, Loomis, from “Halloween” (1978) and many of its sequels.
