The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep
Release: 1956-06-15
·Runtime: 82m
·★ 6.1
Horror
Science Fiction
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...
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Bel-Air Productions
United Artists
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Bela Lugosi
as Casimir
Tor Johnson
as Mr. Curry
Claire Carleton
as Carmona Daly
Herbert Rudley
as Dr. Gordon Ramsay
Phyllis Stanley
as Daphne
Lon Chaney Jr.
as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
Basil Rathbone
as Sir Joel Cadman
Patricia Blair
as Laurie Munroe
Akim Tamiroff
as Odo the Gypsy
John Carradine
as Bohemund
