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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
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.
- 70 min
Nov 26, 2014 · Black Friday 1940. Adam Roche. 3.39K subscribers. Subscribed. 2.3K. 413K views 9 years ago. To hear all about this and other Universal Horror classics, listen to the seven hour documentary 'A...
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- Adam Roche
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
May 6, 2024 · Black Friday (1940) stars Boris Karloff in a thrilling film-noir involving brain transplants and split personalities that lead to a series of crimes. This ea...
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Black Friday, directed by Arthur Lubin and released in 1940, capitalized on madness crime science and the ongoing dramatic properties of a brilliant but morally ambiguous surgeon, Dr. Ernest Sovac, played by Boris Karloff.
