The Black Sleep
# The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
📜 Overview:
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...
💵 Budget: USD
225,000
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
1956-06-15
⌚ Running Time:
82 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.1
Beloved Cast
Sir Joel Cadman
Basil Rathbone
Dr. Gordon Ramsay
Herbert Rudley
Laurie Munroe
Patricia Blair
Odo the Gypsy
Akim Tamiroff
Daphne
Phyllis Stanley
Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
Lon Chaney Jr.
Casimir
Bela Lugosi
Bohemund
John Carradine
Sailor-Subject
George Sawaya
Mr. Curry
Tor Johnson
Female Subject
Sally Yarnell
Sgt. Steele
Peter Gordon
Carmona Daly
Claire Carleton
Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)
Clive Morgan
Angelina Cadman
Louanna Gardner
Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)
Aubrey Schenck
Det. Redford (uncredited)
John Sheffield
