Black Friday

1940 70 min ★ 6.0 Science Fiction, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Drama

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.

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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

Details

Director

Arthur Lubin

Screenplay

Curt Siodmak

Tagline

"A Reign Of HORROR... a man-made monster on the loose!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$125,750

Production

Universal Pictures

Reviews

J

JPV852

August 28, 2019

★ 5/10

Disappointing movie if only because Karloff and Lugosi do not share a single scene together and they pretty much play second and third fiddle to Stanley Ridges who was okay in a dual role. Otherwise a bland movie.

C

CinemaSerf

June 23, 2022

★ 5/10

Stanley Ridges ("Prof. Kingsley") is seriously ill when Boris Karloff ("Dr. Sovac") performs a highly unethical operation to replace his brain with that of gangster "Red Cannon". Though successful in prolonging his friend's life, the newly invigorated Professor begins to demonstrate quite a few of the less savoury character flaws/traits of "Cannon". "Sovac" learns from one of these episodes that t...