The Black Sleep

Reginald Le Borg
1956-06-15

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
6.1
82 min

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...

Cast

Name Character Team
Basil Rathbone Sir Joel Cadman Unowned
Herbert Rudley Dr. Gordon Ramsay Unowned
Patricia Blair Laurie Munroe Unowned
Akim Tamiroff Odo the Gypsy Unowned
Phyllis Stanley Daphne Unowned
Lon Chaney Jr. Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo Unowned
Bela Lugosi Casimir Unowned
John Carradine Bohemund Unowned
George Sawaya Sailor-Subject Unowned
Tor Johnson Mr. Curry Unowned
Sally Yarnell Female Subject Unowned
Peter Gordon Sgt. Steele Unowned
Claire Carleton Carmona Daly Unowned
Clive Morgan Roundsman Blevins (uncredited) Unowned
Louanna Gardner Angelina Cadman Unowned
Aubrey Schenck Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited) Unowned
John Sheffield Det. Redford (uncredited) Unowned