The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

1956 en 82 minutes

Rating: 6.1

Plot

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

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

Sir Joel Cadman

Herbert Rudley

Herbert Rudley

Dr. Gordon Ramsay

Patricia Blair

Patricia Blair

Laurie Munroe

Akim Tamiroff

Akim Tamiroff

Odo the Gypsy

Phyllis Stanley

Phyllis Stanley

Daphne

Lon Chaney Jr.

Lon Chaney Jr.

Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Casimir

John Carradine

John Carradine

Bohemund

George Sawaya

George Sawaya

Sailor-Subject

Tor Johnson

Tor Johnson

Mr. Curry

Sally Yarnell

Sally Yarnell

Female Subject

Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon

Sgt. Steele

Claire Carleton

Claire Carleton

Carmona Daly

Clive Morgan

Clive Morgan

Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)

Louanna Gardner

Louanna Gardner

Angelina Cadman

Aubrey Schenck

Aubrey Schenck

Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)

John Sheffield

John Sheffield

Det. Redford (uncredited)

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