Released:
1956-06-15

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...

Director:
Reginald Le Borg

Runtime:
1h 22min

Genre:
Horror, Science Fiction

• Cast:
• 
  Basil Rathbone
  as
  Sir Joel Cadman
• 
  Herbert Rudley
  as
  Dr. Gordon Ramsay
• 
  Patricia Blair
  as
  Laurie Munroe
• 
  Akim Tamiroff
  as
  Odo the Gypsy
• 
  Phyllis Stanley
  as
  Daphne