The Black Sleep
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
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The Black Sleep (1956, USA) is a Horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg
- Contents: Blu Ray
- Featured on: TCM Underground
Main Details
- Released in 1956
- B & W
- Running time: 82 minutes
- Production Co: Bel-Air Productions (Prospect Productions)
- Distribution Co: United Artists
- Directed by Reginald Le Borg
- Produced by Howard W. Koch, Aubrey Schenck
- Written by John C. Higgins, Gerald Drayson Adams
- Starring Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney, Jr.
- Narrated by Basil Rathbone
- Music by Les Baxter
- Cinematography by Gordon Avil
- Edited by John Schreyer
Plot Summary
- Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.
Taglines
- A Horror Horde of Monster Mutants Walks The Earth!
- ...The Terror Drug That Wakes The Dead!