Mungo, it turns out, was actually a Doctor Monroe, one of Ramsay's former teachers, whom Cadman claims he is trying to help through his research. However, when he next meets with Ramsay, Cadman tells him that he is conducting experiments on human brains to help restore creatures like Mungo and his mute servant Casimir to normal condition. Cadman vows that he will find a way to operate on Angelina and save her life. Later, Cadman and Daphne visit the bedroom of Cadman's wife Angelina, who is comatose from an inoperable brain tumor. The only person who can control Mungo is Cadman's nurse, Daphne, who quiets the attacker and leads him away. When Ramsay is revived at Cadman's estate, he is startled by screams from a young woman named Laurie, who is being attacked by a large man named Mungo. The next morning, Ramsay is discovered in his cell, apparently dead, and Cadman takes the body, supposedly for burial, with his assistant Odo. Cadman gives Ramsay a potion that he calls "The Black Sleep," which induces a deathlike state that can lead to actual death if an antidote is not administered in time. He is visited by renowned surgeon Sir Joel Cadman, who offers him a chance to save his life in exchange for assisting Cadman with experiments at his estate. Gordon Ramsay is awaiting execution for the murder of a man named Curry, despite his claims of innocence. Cadman's Secret, but it is not clear that it received distribution under that name. The Black Sleep was supposedly re-released in 1962 under the title Dr. The film was released as a double feature with the 1955 British film The Creeping Unknown (the title of the re-edited American release of the British film The Quatermass Xperiment). The film marked Bela Lugosi's last complete role before his death in August 1956, although some scenes featuring Lugosi were later included in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space (in which Tor Johnson also appears), completed in 1957 but not released for distribution until 1959. Koch, as part of a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists. The film was produced by Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Tor Johnson appears in a supporting role. It stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Akim Tamiroff. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. The Black Sleep is a 1956 American independent horror film directed by Reginald LeBorg, and written by John C.
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