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Black Friday(Movie, 1940)

1h 10min | Genres: Crime, Horror, Science Fiction
Black FridayRating: 3.0/5 (with 1919 votes)
Black Friday is a 1940 American science fiction horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Screenwriter Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in Donovan's Brain (1953) and Hauser's Memory (1970). ()
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About Black Friday

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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Official Trailer (Trailer) | Original Trailer (Trailer) | BLACK FRIDAY "From now on, you do exactly as I say" Clip (Clip) | Universal Horror Collection: Vol. 1 - Black Friday (1940) - Clip: You've Been Ill (HD) (Clip) | Trailers From Hell (Featurette)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 11 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date GR: 02/29/1940
Director: Arthur Lubin
Screenwriter: Curt Siodmak, Eric Taylor
Film Editor: Philip Cahn
Director of Photography: Elwood Bredell
Composer: Frank Skinner
Budget: 125,750 USD
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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