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Black Friday is a 1940 science fiction film starring Boris Karloff. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Arthur Lubin (July 25, 1898 - May 12, 1995) was a film producer and director who directed many Abbott & Costello films. ...
Curt Siodmak (1902–2000) was a novelist and screenwriter, author of the novel Donovans Brain, which was made into a number of films. ...
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Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankensteins monster in 1931s Frankenstein. ...
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Stanley Ridges (1890-1951) was a British-born American actor who made his mark in films by playing a wide assortment of character parts, his most famous ones probably being two different professors - one of them the kindly Professor Kingsley in the thriller Black Friday, who is hit by a...
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Anne Gwynne in Spring Parade Anne Gwynne (December 10, 1918-March 31, 2003) was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s. ...
Hans J. Salter (January 14, 1896 – July 23, 1994) was an American film composer. ...
Noted cinematographer Elwood Bredell was the lens man for such films as The Killers (1946 film) and The Unsuspected (1947). ...
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See also: 1939 in film 1940 1941 in film 1940s in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events February 7 - Walt Disneys animated film Pinocchio is released. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankensteins monster in 1931s Frankenstein. ...
Karloff plays a famous doctor, Dr. Ernest Sovac, whose best friend, a bookish college professor (played by Stanley Ridges), is run down while crossing a street. In order to save his friend's life, Sovac implants part of another man's brain into the professor's. Unfortunately, the other man was a gangster who was involved in the accident. The professor recovers but at times behaves like the gangster, and his whole personality changes. Sovac is horrified but also intrigued, because the gangster has hidden $500,000 USD somewhere in the city. The doctor continues to treat his friend and, when the professor is under the influence of the gangster's brain, Karloff attempts to have the man lead him to the small fortune. Bela Lugosi plays a gangster also trying to get his hands on the cash. Lugosi, although second-billed, has only a small part in the film, and he does not appear with Karloff. Stanley Ridges (1890-1951) was a British-born American actor who made his mark in films by playing a wide assortment of character parts, his most famous ones probably being two different professors - one of them the kindly Professor Kingsley in the thriller Black Friday, who is hit by a...
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The original script cast Lugosi as the doctor and Karloff as the professor. For unknown reasons, Karloff insisted on playing the doctor. Rather than a straight switch, though, Lugosi was given the minor role of a rival gangster, while character actor Stanley Ridges was brought in to play the professor.
The film provided a rare opportunity for the now forgotten Ridges to display his considerable acting ability, and gave him one of his finest screen roles (Ridges was nearly always one of many supporting cast members, and seldom was cast in roles where he could really make an impression. He is also remembered as Professor Siletsky in the original To Be or Not to Be, and as the Scotland Yard inspector in the Charles Laughton thriller, The Suspect). To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 comedy film about a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. ...
New Scotland Yard, London New Scotland Yard, it blowwsssss often referred to simply as Scotland Yard or The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London (although not the City of London itself). ...
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor. ...
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