Black Friday (1940)

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6.3	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Arthur Lubin

Starring (View all)

Boris Karloff
Dr. Ernest Sovac

Bela Lugosi
Eric Marnay

Stanley Ridges
Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon

Anne Nagel
Sunny Rogers

Anne Gwynne
Jean Sovac

Virginia Brissac
Mrs. Margaret Kingsley

Edmund MacDonald
Frank Miller

Paul Fix
William Kane

Written by

Curt Siodmak

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Description: When his friend Professor Kingsley is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. Unfortunately, the operation has a disastrous Jeckll and Hyde side effect and under certain conditions the persona of Cannon emerges. Sovac soon learns of the duel personality and of half a million dollars the gangster has hidden away. He attempts to find the money through the manipulation of his friend, an attempt that brings Kingsley closer to madness as he alternates between a meek professor of English and a brutal gangster out for murderous ... (more)

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"When his friend Professor Kingsley is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. Unfortunately, the operation has a disastrous Jeckll and Hyde side effect and under certain conditions the persona of Cannon emerges. Sovac soon learns of the duel personality and of half a million dollars the gangster has hidden away. He attempts to find the money through the manipulation of his friend, an att"