Black Friday (1940)
1940 · Feature film · 70 min · dir. Arthur Lubin
A Reign Of HORROR... a man-made monster on the loose!
- Science Fiction
- Crime
- Horror
Synopsis
When his friend Professor Kingsley is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. Unfortunately, the operation has a disastrous Jeckll and Hyde side effect and under certain conditions the persona of Cannon emerges. Sovac soon learns of the duel personality and of half a million dollars the gangster has hidden away. He attempts to find the money through the manipulation of his friend, an…
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Arthur Lubin
- Writer
- Eric Taylor
- Composer
- Frank Skinner
- Cinematography
- Elwood Bredell
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Released
- 1940-02-29
- Awards
- 1 win
- Running time
- 70 minutes
Cast & crew
Arthur Lubin Director
Stanley Ridges
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Anne Nagel
Anne Gwynne
Virginia Brissac
Edmund MacDonald
Paul Fix
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Fun film - not really a monster horror film though · ReformedFruit · 2021-01-07
I enjoyed this one, but would have liked to see Boris and Bela share a little more screen time.
