The Black Sleep (1956)
3.2 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 22min
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- Synopsis:
Set in England in 1872, the story concerned a prominent, knighted surgeon (Basil Rathbone) whose wife has fallen into a coma caused by a deep-seated brain tumor. Due to medicine's state of the art at the time, he does not know how to reach the tumor without risking brain damage or death to the woman he loves, so he undertakes to secretly experiment on the brains of living, but involuntary, human subjects who are under the influence of a powerful Indian anesthetic, Nind Andhera, which he calls the "Black Sleep". Once he has finished his experiment, surviving subjects are revived and placed, in seriously degenerated and mutilated states, in a hidden cellar in the gloomy, abandoned country abbey where he conducts his experiments. - Actors:
- Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair, Phyllis Stanley, Tor Johnson, Sally Yarnell, George Sawaya, Claire Carleton, Louanna Gardner, Peter Gordon, Clive Morgan, Aubrey Schenck, John Sheffield
- Directors:
- Reginald Le Borg
- Writers:
- Gerald Drayson Adams, John C. Higgins
- Aka:
- Dr. Cadman's Secret
- Genres:
- Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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