The Black Sleep
(1956)

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

Released: 1956-06-15

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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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Basil Rathbone

as Sir Joel Cadman

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Herbert Rudley

as Dr. Gordon Ramsay

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Patricia Blair

as Laurie Munroe

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Akim Tamiroff

as Odo the Gypsy

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Lon Chaney Jr.

as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

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George Sawaya

as Sailor-Subject

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Tor Johnson

as Mr. Curry

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Sally Yarnell

as Female Subject

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Peter Gordon

as Sgt. Steele

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Claire Carleton

as Carmona Daly

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Clive Morgan

as Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)

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Louanna Gardner

as Angelina Cadman

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Aubrey Schenck

as Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)

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John Sheffield

as Det. Redford (uncredited)

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Les Baxter

Original Music Composer

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Ted Coodley

Makeup Artist

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Clarence Steensen

Set Decoration

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Aubrey Schenck

Executive Producer

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George Bau

Makeup Designer

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Jack Rabin

Visual Effects

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Gordon Avil

Director of Photography

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