
The Black Sleep
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

Basil Rathbone
Sir Joel Cadman

Herbert Rudley
Dr. Gordon Ramsay

Patricia Blair
Laurie Munroe

Akim Tamiroff
Odo the Gypsy

Phyllis Stanley
Daphne
Featured Crew

Reginald Le Borg
Director
John C. Higgins
Screenplay

Howard W. Koch
Producer

Les Baxter
Original Music Composer

Gerald Drayson Adams
Story
Aubrey Schenck
Executive Producer
Gordon Avil
Director of Photography
John F. Schreyer
Editor
Clarence Steensen
Set Decoration
Cherie Banks
Hairstylist
Ted Coodley
Makeup Artist
George Bau
Makeup Designer