The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

82 mins
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...

Basil Rathbone

Sir Joel Cadman

Herbert Rudley

Dr. Gordon Ramsay

Patricia Blair

Laurie Munroe

Akim Tamiroff

Odo the Gypsy

Lon Chaney Jr.

Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

George Sawaya

Sailor-Subject

Tor Johnson

Mr. Curry

Sally Yarnell

Female Subject

Peter Gordon

Sgt. Steele

Claire Carleton

Carmona Daly

Clive Morgan

Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)

Louanna Gardner

Angelina Cadman

Aubrey Schenck

Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)

John Sheffield

Det. Redford (uncredited)

John C. Higgins

Screenplay

Les Baxter

Original Music Composer

Aubrey Schenck

Executive Producer

Gordon Avil

Director of Photography

Clarence Steensen

Set Decoration

Cherie Banks

Hairstylist

Ted Coodley

Makeup Artist

George Bau

Makeup Designer

Louis DeWitt

Visual Effects

Jack Rabin

Visual Effects

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