Dr. Ernest Sovac
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Black Friday is a 1940 American science fiction horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. [5] Screenwriter Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in Donovan's Brain (1953) and Hauser's Memory (1970).
Black Friday: Directed by Arthur Lubin. With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel. Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Arthur Lubin
- 1940-04-12
Jan 8, 2019 · Black Friday (1940) by. Universal Pictures. Publication date. 1940. Topics. Crime, Drama, Horror. As Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) makes his way to the electric chair, he recalls the events that landed him on death row.
- 70 min
A Reign Of HORROR... a man-made monster on the loose! 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.
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.
Black Friday is a 1940 American science fiction film starring Boris Karloff. Béla Lugosi, although second-billed, has only a small part in the film and does not appear with Karloff. Writer Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in Donovan's Brain (1953) and Hauser's Memory (1970).
When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain.
