Black Sleep, The (1956) - (Movie Clip) Maybe We Should Have Confined Him

Black Sleep, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, He Is As A Dead Man

Producers getting their money’s worth with leading man Basil Rathbone’s opening narration, credits, then in character he visits a London prison where surgeon Ramsay (Herbert Rudley) faces execution, early exposition in the quasi-independent Bel-Air Productions feature The Black Sleep, 1956.

Black Sleep, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Anything Is Justified

In his nifty secret coastal operating lab, Dr. Cadman (Basil Rathbone), assisted by Laurie and Daphne (Patricia Blake, Phyllis Stanley) alarms Gordon (Herbert Rudley), the surgeon he recently saved from execution, with his work on “K-6” (George Sawaya, in The Black Sleep, 1956.

Black Sleep, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Bohemond The Crusader

Significant spoiler here, as Gordon (Herbert Rudley) and Laurie (Patricia Blake) have penetrated the secret wing where their employer Cadman (Basil Rathbone) imprisons his subjects, including John Carradine, George Sawaya, Sally Yarnell and Tor Johnson, the freak show, in The Black Sleep, 1956.