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KatatakutanTaon1956Tagal1h 22mIMDb6.0

The Black Sleep

KatatakutanSci-Fi

A Gypsy supplies a Victorian surgeon with practice patients.

Panoorin Ngayon

Trailer

Cast

RL

Reginald LeBorg

Director

Basil Rathbone

Sir Joel Cadman

Akim Tamiroff

Odo

Lon Chaney Jr.

Mungo

John Carradine

Borg aka Bohemond

Bela Lugosi

Casimir

Herbert Rudley

Dr. Gordon Angus Ramsay

Patricia Blair

Laurie Monroe

Phyllis Stanley

Daphne

Tor Johnson

Curry

SY

Sally Yarnell

Nancy--Female Monster

GS

George Sawaya

K6 - Sailor

Claire Carleton

Carmona Daly

LG

Louanna Gardner

Angelina Cadman

PG

Peter Gordon

Sgt. Steele

CM

Clive Morgan

Roundsman Blevins

AS

Aubrey Schenck

Prison Coroner's Clerk

JS

John Sheffield

Det. Redford

GD

Gerald Drayson Adams

Writer

JC

John C. Higgins

Writer

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Samira SaidMay 29, 2023

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Barbie Samie AntonioNov 16, 2022

The Black Sleep

may claraNov 16, 2022

Rathbone is sociopathic scientist willing to do anything through brain surgery and experimentation to recover his wife, lost to coma, with Rudley framed by him to help discover the answer to that mystery. With Lugosi as a mute servant and Chaney as a mute brute, both victims of Rathbone's experiments.

King BobollasNov 16, 2022

Entertaining mad scientist flick directed by Reginald Le Borg, notable for its cast of horror vets. Basil Rathbone plays the lead character, a surgeon whose beautiful young wife is suffering from a brain tumor. To save her he will need to operate but first he wants to get plenty of practice in on the unsuspecting locals. Rathbone's assistant, played by Herbert Rudley, has some objections. Bela Lugosi (not looking well) plays a mute servant in his last completed film role. A waste of his talents but at least this movie isn't as bad as his Ed Wood dreck. Lon Chaney, Jr. plays a lunatic brute, as he often did late in his career. Just like Bela, he has no lines. Also appearing are John Carradine, Akim Tamiroff, Tor Johnson, and Patricia Blair. No one in this has a good part except for Rathbone and Rudley. Still, it's a good B movie of the kind that was so prominent in the '30s and '40s but had died out by this point. Too bad they couldn't get Boris Karloff, though.

BalqeesFathiNov 16, 2022

I have just watched The Black Sleep for the first time and I found it rather enjoyable despite the low budget and reading several bad reviews about it A mad doctor, Cadmund, experiments on the brains of his subjects to help to remove a brain tumor which his wife is suffering from. To help him, he brings back to life a criminal who has just been hanged for murder. He uses a drug known as The Black Sleep to do these experiments with. Unfortunately, the subjects he had experimented on earlier are now mutants and are released from their underground cellar and they kill Cadmund at the end. This movie is worth having in a collection just for the horror stars in it: Basil Rathbone as Cadmund, Bela Lugosi (in one of his last films) as a mute butler, Lon Chaney Jr. also as a mute, John Carradine as a mutant, Akim Tamiroff and Tor Johnson (Plan 9 From Outer Space). I found this movie great fun to watch. Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

Hulda Miel 💎❤Nov 16, 2022

There is a good deal of talking in this movie, which probably puts a lot of people off. It's also not as cut and dry as most movies, the "bad" guy makes a good case for his experiments, he's just too passionate about them. There's an uneasy sense of dread here; the smell of death sulks in every black and white frame. Some viewers might be bored, confused, disturbed by the morbidity of it all. But hang on to your straight jacket kids! The climax of this opus is completely deranged! It comes out of nowhere, it's incredibly disturbing and ends all too soon! Loonies! Religious nuts! Mutants! Dungeons! Exposed brain matter! A refreshingly intelligent premise and a nutso finale. My kind of movie. Good luck finding it though.

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