The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep (1956)

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

  • Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
  • Release Date: 1956-06-15
  • User Rating: 6.1/10 from 40 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 22min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Bel-Air Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Reginald Le Borg
star 6.1/10
From 40 Ratings
6.0

Summary

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
  • Herbert Rudley

    as Dr. Gordon Ramsay
  • Patricia Blair

    as Laurie Munroe
  • Akim Tamiroff

    as Odo the Gypsy
  • Phyllis Stanley

    as Daphne
  • Lon Chaney Jr.

    as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
  • Bela Lugosi

    as Casimir
  • John Carradine

    as Bohemund
  • George Sawaya

    as Sailor-Subject
  • Tor Johnson

    as Mr. Curry
  • Sally Yarnell

    as Female Subject
  • Peter Gordon

    as Sgt. Steele
  • Claire Carleton

    as Carmona Daly
  • Clive Morgan

    as Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)
  • Louanna Gardner

    as Angelina Cadman
  • Aubrey Schenck

    as Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)
  • John Sheffield

    as Det. Redford (uncredited)
Writing John C. Higgins Screenplay
Production Howard W. Koch Producer
Sound Les Baxter Original Music Composer
Directing Reginald Le Borg Director
Visual Effects Louis DeWitt Visual Effects
Editing John F. Schreyer Editor
Costume & Make-Up Ted Coodley Makeup Artist
Art Clarence Steensen Set Decoration
Production Aubrey Schenck Executive Producer
Costume & Make-Up George Bau Makeup Designer
Writing Gerald Drayson Adams Story
Costume & Make-Up Cherie Banks Hairstylist
Visual Effects Jack Rabin Visual Effects
Camera Gordon Avil Director of Photography

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