Black Friday (1940)
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.
- Released
- 1940-02-29
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Drama
- Runtime
- 70 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Curt Siodmak, Eric Taylor, Arthur Lubin
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 from 63 votes
Cast
- Stanley Ridges as Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon
- Boris Karloff as Dr. Ernest Sovac
- Bela Lugosi as Eric Marnay
- Anne Nagel as Sunny Rogers
- Anne Gwynne as Jean Sovac
- Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Margaret Kingsley
- Edmund MacDonald as Frank Miller
- Paul Fix as William Kane
- Murray Alper as Bellhop
- Jack Mulhall as Bartender
- Raymond Bailey as Louis Devore
- Joe King as Chief of Police