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The Black Sleep (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
82 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Reginald Le Borg

Written By:
Gerald Drayson Adams

John C. Higgins

Actors:
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
Sally Yarnell ..... Nancy--Female Monster
George Sawaya ..... K6 - Sailor
Claire Carleton ..... Carmona Daly
Louanna Gardner ..... Angelina Cadman
Peter Gordon ..... Sgt. Steele
Clive Morgan ..... Roundsman Blevins
Aubrey Schenck ..... Prison Coroner's Clerk
John Sheffield ..... Det. Redford

Synopsis:

England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get him through the night, which Ramsey takes, unaware it is really an East Indian drug, 'nind andhera' ('the black sleep'), which induces a deathlike state of anesthesia. Pronounced dead in his cell, he is turned over to Cadmund, who promptly revives him and takes him to his home in a remote abbey. Cadmund explains he believes Ramsey is innocent and needs his talents to help him in an project, which he is reluctant to immediately discuss further. In fact, Cadmund's wife lies in a coma from a deep-seated brain tumor, and he is attempting to find a safe surgical route to its site by experimenting on the brains of others, whom Ramsey comes to learn are alive during the process, anesthetized by the 'black sleep', and are taken to a hidden recovery room in the abbey from which few emerge, though they still live...

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 26 November, 2019.