Black Friday (1940)

Review: Black Friday (1940)

Director: Arthur Lubin

Cast: Stanley Ridges, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne,

Stanley Ridges
Stanley Ridges
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi
Anne Nagel
Anne Nagel
Anne Gwynne
Anne Gwynne

Plot: University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

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The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Three two-disk sets from Eureka provide an overview of Universal Studios’ horror movies from the mid-’30s to the early ’50s, in the period when the first wave of early sound horrors petered out and briefly flourished again as […]

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