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Black Friday is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Arthur Lubin released in USA on 29 february 1940 with Boris Karloff
Black Friday (1940)
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Add to a movie listBlack Friday is a 1940 American science fiction film starring Boris Karloff. Béla Lugosi, although second-billed, has only a small part in the film and does not appear with Karloff.
Writer Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in "Donovan's Brain" and "Hauser's Memory"
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The famous Dr. Ernest Sovac's best friend, bookish college professor George Kingsley, is run down while crossing a street. In order to save his friend's life, Sovac implants part of another man's brain into the professor's. Unfortunately, the other man was a gangster who was involved in the accident. The professor recovers but at times behaves like the gangster, and his whole personality changes. Sovac is horrified but also intrigued, because the gangster has hidden $500,000 somewhere in the city. The doctor continues to treat his friend and, when the professor is under the influence of the gangster's brain, Karloff attempts to have the man lead him to the fortune. Béla Lugosi plays a gangster also trying to get his hands on the cash.Actors
Boris Karloff
(Dr. Ernest Sovac)
Bela Lugosi
(Eric Marnay)
Stanley Ridges
(Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon)
Paul Fix
(William Kane)
Anne Nagel
(Sunny Rogers)
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