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The Black Sleep

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...

1956 |1h 22m |  Horror, Science Fiction

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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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Phyllis Stanley

Daphne

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Lon Chaney Jr.

Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

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Bela Lugosi

Casimir

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John Carradine

Bohemund

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Tor Johnson

Mr. Curry

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Claire Carleton

Carmona Daly

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Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

$225,000.00

Revenue

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