Black Friday Movie Review 1940

Karloff is a surgeon who saves the life of his college professor friend (Ridges) by transplanting part of the brain of a gangster (involved in the same car crash) into the man's body. This results in a Jekyll/Hyde complex with the gangster's evil portion taking over and seeking revenge on rival mobster Lugosi. Horror stars Karloff and Lugosi never have any scenes together.

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 70 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Doctors & Nurses, Organ Transplants, Killer Brains

Screenplay

Curt Siodmak, Eric Taylor

Cast

Boris Karloff, Stanley Ridges, Bela Lugosi, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, Paul Fix, Virginia Brissac, James Craig

Cinematography

Elwood "Woody" Bredell

Director

Arthur Lubin

Producer

Burt Kelly, Universal Pictures