The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep by Reginald Le Borg

6.10

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

Basil Rathbone as Sir Joel Cadman

Herbert Rudley

Herbert Rudley as Dr. Gordon Ramsay

Patricia Blair

Patricia Blair as Laurie Munroe

Akim Tamiroff

Akim Tamiroff as Odo the Gypsy

Phyllis Stanley

Phyllis Stanley as Daphne

Lon Chaney Jr.

Lon Chaney Jr. as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi as Casimir

John Carradine

John Carradine as Bohemund

George Sawaya

George Sawaya as Sailor-Subject

Tor Johnson

Tor Johnson as Mr. Curry

Sally Yarnell

Sally Yarnell as Female Subject

Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon as Sgt. Steele

Claire Carleton

Claire Carleton as Carmona Daly

Clive Morgan

Clive Morgan as Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)

Louanna Gardner

Louanna Gardner as Angelina Cadman

Aubrey Schenck

Aubrey Schenck as Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)

John Sheffield

John Sheffield as Det. Redford (uncredited)

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