The Black Sleep (1956)
The Black Sleep (1956)
Plot.
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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Basil Rathbone
Sir Joel Cadman
Akim Tamiroff
Odo
Lon Chaney Jr.
Mungo
John Carradine
Borg aka Bohemond
Bela Lugosi
Casimir
Herbert Rudley
Dr. Gordon Angus Ramsay
Patricia Blair
Laurie Monroe
George Sawaya
Sailor-Subject
Phyllis Stanley
Daphne
Tor Johnson
Curry
Sally Yarnell
Nancy--Female Monster
Reginald Le Borg
Director
Peter Gordon
Sgt. Steele
Gerald Drayson Adams
Writer
Claire Carleton
Carmona Daly
John C. Higgins
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Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 15, 1956
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 22m
Content RatingNR
Budget$225,000
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The Black Sleep (alternate title Dr. Cadman’s Secret) a 1956 American independent horror film directed by Reginald LeBorg, and written by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. It stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Akim Tamiroff. Tor Johnson appears in a supporting role. The film was produced by Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, as part of a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists.
The film was released as a double feature with the 1955 British film The Creeping Unknown (the title of the American release of the British film The Quatermass Xperiment). The Black Sleep was re-released in 1962 under the title Dr. Cadman's Secret.
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