The Black Sleep
Overview
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.
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Main Cast & Crew:
Reginald Le Borg - Director
Reginald LeBorg - Director
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Basil Rathbone
Akim Tamiroff
Lon Chaney Jr.
John Carradine
Bela Lugosi
Herbert Rudley
Tor Johnson
Louanna Gardner
Patricia Blake
Details
- Format: DVD (Full Frame, Manufactured on Demand, Mono Sound)
- UPC: 883904240990
- Genre: HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY
- Rating: NR
- Release Date: March 2011
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