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The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

1956/06/15 (US) | Horror, Science Fiction

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

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...

1h 22m

6.1

  • John C. Higgins

    Screenplay

  • Reginald Le Borg

    Director

Lead Cast

  • Basil Rathbone

    Basil Rathbone

    Sir Joel Cadman

  • Herbert Rudley

    Herbert Rudley

    Dr. Gordon Ramsay

  • Patricia Blair

    Patricia Blair

    Laurie Munroe

  • Akim Tamiroff

    Akim Tamiroff

    Odo the Gypsy

  • Phyllis Stanley

    Phyllis Stanley

    Daphne

  • Lon Chaney Jr.

    Lon Chaney Jr.

    Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

  • Bela Lugosi

    Bela Lugosi

    Casimir

Budget

$ 225,000

Revenue

$ 0

Status

Released

Production Company

  • Bel-Air Productions
  • United Artists

Crews

  • Howard W. Koch

    Producer

  • Les Baxter

    Original Music Composer

  • Louis DeWitt

    Visual Effects

  • John F. Schreyer

    Editor

  • Ted Coodley

    Makeup Artist

  • Clarence Steensen

    Set Decoration