The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep is a 1956 film about a 19th-century doctor who kidnaps living people and experiments on their brains, while they are still alive but under the influence of a powerful anesthetic, in an effort to discover a way to cure his wife's brain tumor. Directed by Reginald Le Borg. Written by John C. Higgins, based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams.

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!  (taglines)

Sir Joel Cadman

• Rome wasn't built in a day, so it must have been built in the night.

Taglines

• The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
• Out of the evil brain of a twisted scientist comes a fantastic robot army - crushing all barriers...feeding on beauty - lusting to claw the world apart!
• A horror horde of monster mutants walk the Earth!
• Rising from the depths of a black hell!
• Horror beyond Belief rising from the depths of a black hell!

Cast

• Basil Rathbone — Sir Joel Cadman
• Herbert Rudley - Dr. Gordon Angus Ramsey
• Patricia Blair (as Patricia Blake) - Laurie Monroe
• Akim Tamiroff — Udu the Gypsy
• Phyllis Stanley - Nurse Daphnae

and, as the monsters:

• Lon Chaney Jr. — Dr. Monroe aka Mungo
• John Carradine — "Bohemund"
• Bela Lugosi — Casimir
• Tor Johnson - Mr. Curry
• George Sawaya - Sailor-Subject
• Sally Yarnell - Woman-Subject

External links

• The Black Sleep quotes at the Internet Movie Database