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The Black Sleep

61% | Jun 15, 1956
Horror Science Fiction

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...

Top Billed Cast

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Basil Rathbone
Sir Joel Cadman
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Herbert Rudley
Dr. Gordon Ramsay
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Patricia Blair
Laurie Munroe
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Akim Tamiroff
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Featured Crew

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Reginald Le Borg
Director
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John C. Higgins
Screenplay
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Howard W. Koch
Producer
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Les Baxter
Original Music Composer
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Gerald Drayson Adams
Story
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Aubrey Schenck
Executive Producer
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Gordon Avil
Director of Photography
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John F. Schreyer
Editor
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Clarence Steensen
Set Decoration
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Cherie Banks
Hairstylist
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Ted Coodley
Makeup Artist
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George Bau
Makeup Designer

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