Black Friday (1940)

6.0/10 • 70 min • Science Fiction Crime Horror Mystery Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Stanley Ridges

Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon

Boris Karloff

Dr. Ernest Sovac

Bela Lugosi

Eric Marnay

Anne Nagel

Sunny Rogers

Anne Gwynne

Jean Sovac

Virginia Brissac

Mrs. Margaret Kingsley

Edmund MacDonald

Frank Miller

Paul Fix

William Kane

Murray Alper

Bellhop

Jack Mulhall

Bartender

Raymond Bailey

Louis Devore

Joe King

Chief of Police

John Kelly

Taxi Driver

Jessie Arnold

Nurse

Tommy Conlon

Student

James Craig

Reporter Ernst Gives Notes To

Kernan Cripps

Detective

Eddie Dunn

Det. Farnow

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