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The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

1956★ 6.2 · 451h 22mHorrorScience Fiction

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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Cast

John Carradine
as Bohemund

Lon Chaney Jr.
as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

Lugosi Béla
as Casimir

Basil Rathbone
as Sir Joel Cadman

Akim Tamiroff
as Odo the Gypsy

Claire Carleton
as Carmona Daly

Patricia Blair
as Laurie Munroe

George Sawaya
as Sailor-Subject

Phyllis Stanley
as Daphne

Herbert Rudley
as Dr. Gordon Ramsay

Tor Johnson
as Mr. Curry

Clive Morgan
as Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)

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Release date: 1956-06-15

Budget: $225,000

Runtime: 1h 22m

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HorrorScience Fiction

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