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The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

  • Movie
  • 1956
  • NR
  • 1h 22m

Directed by Reginald Le Borg

6.2

TMDB audience rating
6.2 out of 10 from 45 votes

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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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Cast and crew

  • Basil Rathbone

    Basil RathboneSir Joel Cadman

  • Herbert Rudley

    Herbert RudleyDr. Gordon Ramsay

  • Patricia Blair

    Patricia BlairLaurie Munroe

  • Akim Tamiroff

    Akim TamiroffOdo the Gypsy

  • Phyllis Stanley

    Phyllis StanleyDaphne

  • Lon Chaney Jr.

    Lon Chaney Jr.Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

  • Bela Lugosi

    Bela LugosiCasimir

  • John Carradine

    John CarradineBohemund

  • George Sawaya

    George SawayaSailor-Subject

  • Tor Johnson

    Tor JohnsonMr. Curry

  • Sally YarnellFemale Subject

  • Peter GordonSgt. Steele

  • Claire Carleton

    Claire CarletonCarmona Daly

  • Clive MorganRoundsman Blevins (uncredited)

  • Louanna GardnerAngelina Cadman

  • Aubrey SchenckPrison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)

  • John SheffieldDet. Redford (uncredited)

Director
Reginald Le Borg
Writer
John C. Higgins and Gerald Drayson Adams
Music
Les Baxter
Cinematography
Gordon Avil