The Black Sleep (1956)
- Starring:
- Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, (more)
- Director(s):
- Reginald Le Borg
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Given its cast and director, it is disheartening that The Black Sleep isn't any better than it is. Basil Rathbone heads the cast as Sir Joel Cadman, who uses a mind-controlling drug known as "The Black Sleep" to place brilliant scientist Gordon Ramsay (Herbert Rudley) under his control. Cadman needs Ramsay's intellect and expertise to aid him in a series of mysterious, covert experiments involving brain transplants. Evidently Cadman has already endured a few failures, as witness the present feeble-minded state of his former "volunteer" Mungo (Lon Chaney Jr.). Ramsay and heroine Laurie Munro (Patricia Blake) finally learn what Cadman is up to when they stumble upon a dungeon full of his previous "experiments," including a demented, emaciated man (John Carradine) and a blank-eyed monstrosity (Tor Johnson). In his last mainstream film, Bela Lugosi essays the thankless role of Cadman's mute servant. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Basil Rathbone - Sir Joel Cadman
- Lon Chaney, Jr. - Mungo
- Bela Lugosi - Casimir
- Patricia Blake - Laurie
- Tor Johnson - Curry
- George Sawava - K-6
- Peter Gordon - Sgt. Steel
- Clive Morgan - Constable Glenowen
- Akim Tamiroff - Odo, the Gypsy
- John Carradine - Borg
- Herbert Rudley - Dr. Gordon Ramsay
- Phyllis Stanley - Daphne
- Sally Yarnell - Nancy
- Claire Carleton - Carmona Daly
- Louanna Gardner - Angelina Cadman
- John Sheffield - Scotland Yard Detective
- Director(s):
- Reginald Le Borg
- Writer(s):
- John C. Higgins
- Producer(s):
- Howard W. Koch
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