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The Black Sleep
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United Artists United Artists

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The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

1956 82 min ★ 6.2 (45) Released
Horror Science Fiction

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...

Original title
The Black Sleep
Language
EN
Country
US
Budget
$225,000
Revenue
Keywords 5
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Cast 11
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

John Carradine

John Carradine

Bohemund

George Sawaya

George Sawaya

Sailor-Subject

Tor Johnson

Tor Johnson

Mr. Curry

Claire Carleton

Claire Carleton

Carmona Daly

Crew 4
Reginald Le Borg

Reginald Le Borg

Director

Howard W. Koch

Howard W. Koch

Producer

Les Baxter

Les Baxter

Original Music Composer

Gerald Drayson Adams

Gerald Drayson Adams

Story

Gallery 29
Videos 3
US Release Dates 2

Jun 15, 1956

Distributed by United Artists Corp.

NR Theatrical

Jan 1, 1962

Retitled Reissue

Theatrical

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