The Black Sleep (1956)Stream and Watch Online

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Released June 15th, 1956, 'The Black Sleep' stars Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair, Akim Tamiroff The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 22 min, and received a user score of 61 (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from 40 top users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's 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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