The Black Sleep

Jun 15, 1956

1h 22m

★ 6.1

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...

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Bel-Air Productions

United Artists

The Black Sleep Trailers

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

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