The Black Sleep (1956)1h22
Horror · Science Fiction
Director Reginald Le Borg
Also directed The Mummy's Ghost, Diary of a Madman, Calling Dr. Death, and 50 more
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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Cast
Basil Rathbone
Herbert Rudley
Patricia Blair
Akim Tamiroff
Phyllis Stanley
Lon Chaney Jr.
Bela Lugosi
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