The Black Sleep (1956)

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. (IMDB)

    Basil Rathbone as Sir Joel Cadman
    Akim Tamiroff as Udu the Gypsy
    Herbert Rudley as Dr. Gordon Ramsey
    Patricia Blake as Laurie Munroe
    Phyllis Stanley as Daphnae
    Lon Chaney Jr. as Dr. Monroe aka Mungo
    Bela Lugosi as Casimir
    John Carradine as "Bohemund"
    Tor Johnson as Curry
    George Sawaya as Sailor Subject
    Sally Yarnell as Female Subject
    Peter Gordon as Det. Sgt. Steele
    Claire Carleton as Carmoda Daily
    John Sheffield as Det. Redford
    Clive Morgan as Roundsman Blevins
    Louanna Gardner as Angelina Cadman
    Aubrey Schenck as Prison Coroner's Aide



























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