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.
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Black Friday
1940 EN 70 min
Overview
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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29/02/1940
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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
Raymond Bailey
Louis Devore
Joe King
Chief of Police
John Kelly
Taxi Driver
Jessie Arnold
Nurse
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Elfriede Borodin
2nd Nurse
Tommy Conlon
Student
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Franco Corsaro
Club Maitre d' (uncredited)
James Craig
Reporter Ernst Gives Notes To
Kernan Cripps
Detective
Eddie Dunn
Det. Farnow
Edward Earle
Detective
Harry Hayden
Prison Doctor
Frank Jaquet
Fat Man in Bar
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Ellen Lowe
Midtown Hotel Maid
Jerry Marlowe
Midtown Hotel Clerk
Jerry Marlowe
Cabbie
Wallace Reid Jr.
Student
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William Ruhl
G-Man
Frank Sheridan
Prison Chaplain
Edwin Stanley
Dr. Warner
Harry Tenbrook
Cabbie
Emmett Vogan
Det. Carpenter
Russell Wade
Student
Dave Willock
Student
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Victor Zimmerman
G-Man
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Robert Morgan
Hotel Associate
Original Soundtrack
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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 there is $500,000 hidden away somewhere, so he attempts to manipulate his friend to reveal the location of the loot. It's billed as a Karloff and Lugosi feature - but some recasting shenanigans meant t…
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