The Black Sleep (1956)
The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
82 min
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...
- Release date
- June 15, 1956
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $225,000
Trailer
Cast
- Basil Rathbone as Sir Joel Cadman
- Akim Tamiroff as Odo
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Mungo
- John Carradine as Borg aka Bohemond
- Bela Lugosi as Casimir
- Herbert Rudley as Dr. Gordon Angus Ramsay
- Patricia Blair as Laurie Monroe
- Phyllis Stanley as Daphne
- Tor Johnson as Curry
- Sally Yarnell as Nancy--Female Monster
Crew
- Reginald LeBorg · Director
- Gerald Drayson Adams · Writer
- John C. Higgins · Writer
- Howard W. Koch · Producer
- Les Baxter · Composer
- Gordon Avil · Cinematographer
- John F. Schreyer · Editor