Movie·1956·1h 22m
The Black Sleep
The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
Directed By
Reginald Le Borg
Country
United States of America
Language
English
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The Story
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...
Written By
John C. Higgins
Producer
Howard W. Koch, Aubrey Schenck
Cinematography
Gordon Avil
Music
Les Baxter
Editor
John F. Schreyer
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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Cast
Basil Rathbone
Sir Joel Cadman
Herbert Rudley
Dr. Gordon Ramsay
Patricia Blair
Laurie Munroe
Akim Tamiroff
Odo the Gypsy
Phyllis Stanley
Daphne
Lon Chaney Jr.
Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
Bela Lugosi
Casimir
John Carradine
Bohemund
George Sawaya
Sailor-Subject
Tor Johnson
Mr. Curry
Sally Yarnell
Female Subject
Peter Gordon
Sgt. Steele
Claire Carleton
Carmona Daly
Clive Morgan
Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)
Louanna Gardner
Angelina Cadman
Aubrey Schenck
Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)
John Sheffield
Det. Redford (uncredited)
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Crew
Howard W. Koch
Producer
Reginald Le Borg
Director
John C. Higgins
Screenplay
Les Baxter
Original Music Composer
Aubrey Schenck
Executive Producer
John F. Schreyer
Editor
Gordon Avil
Director of Photography
Gerald Drayson Adams
Story
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