The Black Sleep
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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
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
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Phyllis Stanley
Daphne
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Lon Chaney Jr.
Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
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Bela Lugosi
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John Carradine
Bohemund
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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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Reginald Le Borg Director · John C. Higgins Screenplay Gerald Drayson Adams Story
Budget $225K · United States release June 15, 1956 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$225,000
Production
Bel-Air Productions
Production
United Artists
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio · Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · June 15, 1956
Theatrical · Distributed by United Artists Corp.
United States
January 1, 1962 · Theatrical · Retitled Reissue
Germany
November 29, 1957 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
August 7, 1956 · Theatrical · Rated X
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