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The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead! - The Black Sleep
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Title: The Black Sleep

Release Date: 15 Jun 1956

Runtime: 1h 22m

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Director: Bel-Air Productions, United Artists

Production Companies: Bel-Air Productions, United Artists

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...

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Average Vote: 6 (41 votes)

Cast

  • Sir Joel Cadman: Basil Rathbone
  • Dr. Gordon Ramsay: Herbert Rudley
  • Laurie Munroe: Patricia Blair
  • Odo the Gypsy: Akim Tamiroff
  • Daphne: Phyllis Stanley
  • Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo: Lon Chaney Jr.
  • Casimir: Bela Lugosi
  • Bohemund: John Carradine
  • Sailor-Subject: George Sawaya
  • Mr. Curry: Tor Johnson
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