The Passing

The Passing is a 1983 American science fiction horror film about an elderly WWII vet who enrolls in a program to have his consciousness transplanted into a younger body, and a young death row prisoner who is forced to provide the body. The film stars John Huckert as both the aged veteran, Ernie Neuman, and the younger body, and also stars James Carroll Plaster as Ernie, Welton Benjamin Johnson as Leviticus (Rose) Washington, and Lynn Odell as Monica / Foreign Movie Actress.