The Black Sleep
The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
1956 · 1h 22m · NOT RATED
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
Reginald Le Borg
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...
Director and cast
- Reginald Le Borg Director
- Basil Rathbone as Sir Joel Cadman
- Akim Tamiroff as Professor Odo
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Mungo / Dr. Munroe
- John Carradine as Bohemund
- Bela Lugosi as Casimir
- Herbert Rudley as Dr. Gordon Ramsay
- Patricia Blair as Laurie Munroe
- Phyllis Stanley as Daphne
- Tor Johnson as Mr. Curry
- Louanna Gardner as Angelina Cadman
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