The Black Sleep

Synopsis

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...

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When & where

Streaming on

• Cultpix↗
• ScreenPix Apple TV Channel↗
• ScreenPix Amazon Channel ↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Basil Rathbone
  as Sir Joel Cadman
• 
  Herbert Rudley
  as Dr. Gordon Ramsay
• 
  Patricia Blair
  as Laurie Munroe
• 
  Akim Tamiroff
  as Odo the Gypsy
• 
  Phyllis Stanley
  as Daphne
• 
  Lon Chaney Jr.
  as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

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