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The Black Sleep

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Calorie Rating: 115
Released: 1956-06-15
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 82 Minutes
Budget: 225000
Studios: Bel-Air Productions, United Artists,


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...

Director / Directors



Cast

Basil Rathbone
Character: Sir Joel Cadman
Herbert Rudley
Character: Dr. Gordon Ramsay
Patricia Blair
Character: Laurie Munroe

Akim Tamiroff
Character: Odo the Gypsy
Phyllis Stanley
Character: Daphne
Lon Chaney Jr.
Character: Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

Bela Lugosi
Character: Casimir
John Carradine
Character: Bohemund
George Sawaya
Character: Sailor-Subject

Tor Johnson
Character: Mr. Curry
Sally Yarnell
Character: Female Subject
Peter Gordon
Character: Sgt. Steele

Claire Carleton
Character: Carmona Daly
Clive Morgan
Character: Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)
Louanna Gardner
Character: Angelina Cadman

Aubrey Schenck
Character: Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)
John Sheffield
Character: Det. Redford (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Les Baxter
Original Music Composer

Aubrey Schenck
Executive Producer
Gordon Avil
Director of Photography
Cherie Banks
Hairstylist

Ted Coodley
Makeup Artist
George Bau
Makeup Designer

Jack Rabin
Visual Effects
Louis DeWitt
Visual Effects

Clarence Steensen
Set Decoration