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The Black Sleep (1956)

Jun 15, 1956 · 1h 22m

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The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

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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  • 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 Female Subject
  • Peter Gordon Sgt. Steele
  • Claire Carleton Claire Carleton Carmona Daly
  • Clive Morgan Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)
  • Louanna Gardner Angelina Cadman
  • Aubrey Schenck Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)

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