Summary: England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get him through the night, which Ramsey takes, unaware it is really an East Indian drug, "nind andhera" ("the black sleep"), which induces a deathlike state of anesthesia... (imdb)

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Genres: Sci-fi, Horror

Country: USA

Directed By: Reginald Le Borg

Written By: John C. Higgins, Gerald Drayson Adams

Starring: Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Akim Tamiroff, Herbert Rudley

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