The Black Sleep [28437] Released: 1956-06-15 Revenue: $0 Budget: $225,000 Profit: $-225,000 Runtime: 82 mins Popularity: 1.0514 Vote Average: 6.1 Vote Count: 43 Overview: 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... Cast [17] Basil RathboneSir Joel Cadman Herbert RudleyDr. Gordon Ramsay Patricia BlairLaurie Munroe Akim TamiroffOdo the Gypsy Phyllis StanleyDaphne Lon Chaney Jr.Dr. Munroe, aka Mung Bela LugosiCasimir John CarradineBohemund George SawayaSailor-Subject Tor JohnsonMr. Curry Sally YarnellFemale Subject Peter GordonSgt. Steele Claire CarletonCarmona Daly Clive MorganRoundsman Blevins Louanna GardnerAngelina Cadman Aubrey SchenckPrison Coroner's Cle John SheffieldDet. Redford Trailers The Black Sleep ≣ 1956 ≣ Trailer THE BLACK SLEEP trailer Joe Dante on THE BLACK SLEEP