The Black Sleep (1956) - Where to Watch

Now, before we get into the basics of how you can watch 'The Black Sleep' right now, here are some details about the Bel-Air Productions, United Artists horror flick. The Black Sleep starring Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair, Akim Tamiroff has a NR rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 22 min. The release date of the movie is June 15th, 1956. was calculated from real

Wondering what this story is all about? Here's the plot: "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..."

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