The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

1956
1h 22m
6.1

6.1/10

45 votes • View on IMDb
Horror Science Fiction

"The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!"

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...

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Status: Released

Budget: $225,000

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Bel-Air Productions United Artists
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

experiment england mad doctor brain surgeon suspended animation

Quick Facts

Release Date June 15, 1956
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0049013

Cast

Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone

Sir Joel Cadman

Herbert Rudley
Herbert Rudley

Dr. Gordon Ramsay

Patricia Blair
Patricia Blair

Laurie Munroe

Akim Tamiroff
Akim Tamiroff

Odo the Gypsy

Phyllis Stanley
Phyllis Stanley

Daphne

Lon Chaney Jr.
Lon Chaney Jr.

Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi

Casimir

John Carradine
John Carradine

Bohemund

George Sawaya
George Sawaya

Sailor-Subject

Tor Johnson
Tor Johnson

Mr. Curry

Sally Yarnell
Sally Yarnell

Female Subject

Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon

Sgt. Steele

Key Crew

Reginald Le Borg
Director
John C. Higgins
Screenplay
Howard W. Koch
Producer
Aubrey Schenck
Executive Producer