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The Black Sleep

HorrorScience Fiction
★6.1

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

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...

Reginald Le Borg

Director

John C. Higgins,Gerald Drayson Adams

Writers

Aubrey Schenck,Howard W. Koch

Producers

$225,000

Budget

$0

Revenue

15-06-1956

Release Date

US

Country

6.081

Rating

43

Votes

-

Age Rating

82 min

Runtime

Released

Status

English

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Reginald Le Borg

Reginald Le Borg

Reginald Le Borg (11 December 1902 – 25 March 1989) was an Austrian film director. He directed 68 films between 1936 and 1974. He was born in Vienna, Austria as Reginald Grobel and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. Although he worked in a variety of genres, he is perhaps best remembered today for the series of low-budget horror films he made at Universal Studios in the 1940s. His most expensive and also most successful film was San Diego, I Love You (1944) featuring Buster Keaton in a supporting role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reginald Le Borg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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