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The Black Sleep

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6.1/10 • 43

1956-06-151h 22m

HorrorScience Fiction

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...

Directors
Reginald Le Borg
Editors
John F. Schreyer

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  1. Basil Rathbone

    Basil Rathbone

    Sir Joel Cadman

  2. Herbert Rudley

    Herbert Rudley

    Dr. Gordon Ramsay

  3. Patricia Blair

    Patricia Blair

    Laurie Munroe

  4. Akim Tamiroff

    Akim Tamiroff

    Odo the Gypsy

  5. Phyllis Stanley

    Phyllis Stanley

    Daphne

  6. Lon Chaney Jr.

    Lon Chaney Jr.

    Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

  7. Bela Lugosi

    Bela Lugosi

    Casimir

  8. John Carradine

    John Carradine

    Bohemund

  9. George Sawaya

    George Sawaya

    Sailor-Subject

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$225,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
experimentenglandmad doctorbrain surgeonsuspended animation