Black Friday (1940)
Black Friday (1940)
Plot.
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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Cast & Crew.
Boris Karloff
Dr. Ernest Sovac
Bela Lugosi
Eric Marnay
Stanley Ridges
Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon
Anne Nagel
Sunny Rogers
Anne Gwynne
Jean Sovac
Virginia Brissac
Mrs. Margaret Kingsley
Arthur Lubin
Director
Curt Siodmak
Writer
Edmund MacDonald
Frank Miller
Paul Fix
William Kane
Eric Taylor
Writer
Edmund L. Hartmann
Writer
Murray Alper
Bellhop
Elwood Bredell
Cinematographer
Jack Mulhall
Bartender
Philip Cahn
Editor
Raymond Bailey
Louis Devore
Joe King
Chief of Police
John Kelly
Taxi Driver
Jessie Arnold
Nurse
Elfriede Borodin
2nd Nurse
Tommy Conlon
Student
Franco Corsaro
Club Maitre d' (uncredited)
James Craig
Reporter Ernst Gives Notes To
Kernan Cripps
Detective
Eddie Dunn
Det. Farnow
Edward Earle
Detective
Harry Hayden
Prison Doctor
Frank Jaquet
Fat Man in Bar
Ellen Lowe
Midtown Hotel Maid
Jerry Marlowe
Midtown Hotel Clerk / Cabbie
Wallace Reid Jr.
Student
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 29, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 10m
Content RatingNR
Budget$125,750
Genres
Wiki.
Black Friday is a 1940 American science fiction horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.Screenwriter Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in Donovan's Brain (1953) and Hauser's Memory (1970).