Boris Karloff
Dr. Ernest Sovac
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Black Friday is a 1940 American science fiction horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Screenwriter Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in Donovan's Brain (1953) and Hauser's Memory (1970).
Black Friday: Directed by Arthur Lubin. With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel. Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Arthur Lubin
- 1940-04-12
The tale of Black Friday (1940) unfolds as Dr. Ernest Sovac faces the grim reality of his impending execution, yet manages to scribble down his harrowing account for a nosy reporter, all the while being escorted to his doom.
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When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain.
- Arthur Lubin, Fred Frank
- Boris Karloff
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.
Jan 8, 2019 · Black Friday (1940) by. Universal Pictures. Publication date. 1940. Topics. Crime, Drama, Horror. As Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) makes his way to the electric chair, he recalls the events that landed him on death row.
After placing brain matter from a violent gangster into the mind of a dying teacher named George Kingsley (Stanley Ridges), Sovac watches his patient take on violent tendencies.
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