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The Black Sleep

61 %|Jun 15, 1956|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...

Featured Crew

Reginald Le Borg
Director
John C. Higgins
Screenplay
Howard W. Koch
Producer
Les Baxter
Original Music Composer
Gerald Drayson Adams
Story
Aubrey Schenck
Executive Producer
Gordon Avil
Director of Photography
John F. Schreyer
Editor

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Cast

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Basil Rathbone
Sir Joel Cadman
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Herbert Rudley
Dr. Gordon Ramsay
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Patricia Blair
Laurie Munroe
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Akim Tamiroff
Odo the Gypsy
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Lon Chaney Jr.
Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
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George Sawaya
Sailor-Subject
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Tor Johnson
Mr. Curry
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Sally Yarnell
Female Subject
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Peter Gordon
Sgt. Steele
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Claire Carleton
Carmona Daly
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Clive Morgan
Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)
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Louanna Gardner
Angelina Cadman
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Aubrey Schenck
Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)
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John Sheffield
Det. Redford (uncredited)