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The Black Sleep
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...
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair, Akim Tamiroff, Phyllis Stanley, Lon Chaney Jr.
Crew: John C. Higgins (Screenplay), Howard W. Koch (Producer), Les Baxter (Original Music Composer), Reginald Le Borg (Director), Louis DeWitt (Visual Effects), John F. Schreyer (Editor)
Studio: Bel-Air Productions, United Artists
Runtime: 82 minutes
Quality: HD
Release: Jun 15, 1956
Country: United States of America
Language: English
