The Black Sleep
1956
The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
- Reginald Le Borg
- 1h 22m
- June 15, 1956 · United States of America
Overview
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...
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 15, 1956
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- United Artists,Bel-Air Productions
- Cast
- Lon Chaney Jr.,Patricia Blair,Akim Tamiroff,Tor Johnson,Aubrey Schenck,John Sheffield,John Carradine,George Sawaya,Sally Yarnell,Louanna Gardnerand 7 more
- Director
- Reginald Le Borg
- Producer
- Aubrey Schenck,Howard W. Koch
- Cinematography
- Gordon Avil
- Music
- Les Baxter
- Budget
- $225,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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