The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

Release date : June 15, 1956
Runtime : 1h 22m
Countries of origin : United States of America /
Original Language : English /
Director : Reginald Le Borg /
Production companies : Bel-Air Productions / United Artists /
Budget : $225,000.00
June 15, 1956 1h 22m United States of America Horror English More
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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...
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Basil Rathbone
Sir Joel Cadman
Herbert Rudley
Dr. Gordon Ramsay
Patricia Blair
Laurie Munroe
Akim Tamiroff
Odo the Gypsy
Lon Chaney Jr.
Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
Bela Lugosi
Casimir
John Carradine
Bohemund
George Sawaya
Sailor-Subject
Tor Johnson
Mr. Curry
Sally Yarnell
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Peter Gordon
Sgt. Steele
Claire Carleton
Carmona Daly
Clive Morgan
Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)
Louanna Gardner
Angelina Cadman
Aubrey Schenck
Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)
John Sheffield
Det. Redford (uncredited)

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  • title:The Black Sleep
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1956
  • Runtime:1h 22m
  • Genres: Horror · Science Fiction ·
  • Countries of origin: United States of America ·
  • Original Language: English ·
  • Director: Reginald Le Borg /
  • Writers: John C. Higgins · Gerald Drayson Adams ·
  • Production companies: Bel-Air Productions · United Artists ·
  • Budget:$225,000.00
  • Overview: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...
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