Black Friday

Movie

1940

1h 10m

English

Crime, Horror, Science Fiction

User Score:

6.4

Critic Score:

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, Kov...

Black Friday

Movie

1940

1h 10m

English

Crime, Horror, Science Fiction

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6.4

IMDB

CRITIC SCORE

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Cast

Full Cast & Crew

Stanley Ridges

Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon

Dr. Ernest Sovac

Eric Marnay

Sunny Rogers

Jean Sovac

Mrs. Margaret Kingsley

Frank Miller

William Kane

Bellhop

Bartender

Louis Devore

Chief of Police

Taxi Driver

Nurse

2nd Nurse

Student

Club Maitre d' (uncredited)

James Craig

Reporter Ernst Gives Notes To

Detective

Det. Farnow

Detective

Prison Doctor

Fat Man in Bar

Midtown Hotel Maid

Cabbie

Directed By: Arthur Lubin

Written By: Curt Siodmak (Screenplay), Eric Taylor (Screenplay)

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jarvis-8243417 says...

3 weeks ago

Universal pairs Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi one last time for the gangster film _Black Friday_. When preeminent scientist Dr. Ernest Sovac performs a brain transplant to save his colleague, Professor Kingsley, the personality of the gangster that Sovac took the brain from begins to emerge and resumes the gang war that got him killed. Stanley Ridges does an excellent job at switching between the scientist and gangster personas, and Lugosi too is quite impressive as a rival gang leader. However, the plot is rather convoluted and there’s no one to really root for. _Black Friday_ is a mess that doesn’t know what it’s doing, but it’s also kind of entertaining.

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JPV852

5 years ago

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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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

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 t More

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