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Black Friday

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Black Friday
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1hr 10min
Genre:
Horror
Release:
1940
Director:
Arthur Lubin
Starring:
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges  ...more
Synopsis: Told in flashback as Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) is marched into the gas chamber, Black Friday concerns kindly college professor George Kingsley (Stanley Ridges), who is seriously injured when he is caught in the middle of a gangster shootout. Kingsley's best friend Sovac performs an emergency "brain-ectomy", replacing Kingsley's gray matter with that of dying gangster Red Cannon. Though the operation is successful, the mild-mannered Kingsley occasionally lapses into Cannon's more brutal personality, ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
Black Friday is, of course, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in modern clothing and with a "scientific" explanation, and it is probably no coincidence that Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale was being readied at the time by MGM as a vehicle for none other than Spencer Tracy. Although they didn't employ anyone of that caliber, Universal had both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi on the payroll and much have been ... Full Review
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Boris Karloff
Dr. Ernest Sovac
Bela Lugosi
Eric Mornay
Stanley Ridges
Prof. George Kingsley/Red Cannon
Anne Nagel
Sunny Rogers
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