The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

15/6/1956 1h 22m 6.1/10

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...

Director

Reginald Le Borg

Top Billed Cast

Patricia Blair

Patricia Blair

Laurie Munroe

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

Sir Joel Cadman

Lon Chaney Jr.

Lon Chaney Jr.

Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

Akim Tamiroff

Akim Tamiroff

Odo the Gypsy

Herbert Rudley

Herbert Rudley

Dr. Gordon Ramsay

Phyllis Stanley

Phyllis Stanley

Daphne

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