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Black Friday

Black Friday

  • Status: Released
  • 29-02-1940
  • Runtime: 70 min
  • Score: 5.991
  • Vote count: 56

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.

Stanley Ridges

Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon

Boris Karloff

Dr. Ernest Sovac

Bela Lugosi

Eric Marnay

Anne Nagel

Sunny Rogers

Anne Gwynne

Jean Sovac

Virginia Brissac

Mrs. Margaret Kingsley

Edmund MacDonald

Frank Miller

Paul Fix

William Kane

Murray Alper

Bellhop

Jack Mulhall

Bartender

Raymond Bailey

Louis Devore

Joe King

Chief of Police

John Kelly

Taxi Driver

Jessie Arnold

Nurse

Elfriede Borodin

2nd Nurse

Tommy Conlon

Student

Franco Corsaro

Club Maitre d' (uncredited)

James Craig

Reporter Ernst Gives Notes To

Kernan Cripps

Detective

Eddie Dunn

Det. Farnow

Edward Earle

Detective

Harry Hayden

Prison Doctor

Frank Jaquet

Fat Man in Bar

Ellen Lowe

Midtown Hotel Maid

Jerry Marlowe

Midtown Hotel Clerk

Jerry Marlowe

Cabbie

Wallace Reid Jr.

Student

William Ruhl

G-Man

Frank Sheridan

Prison Chaplain

Edwin Stanley

Dr. Warner

Harry Tenbrook

Cabbie

Emmett Vogan

Det. Carpenter

Russell Wade

Student

Dave Willock

Student

Victor Zimmerman

G-Man

Robert Morgan

Hotel Associate

JPV852

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.

CinemaSerf

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 the less savoury character flaws/traits of "Cannon". "Sovac" learns from one of these episodes that there is $500,000 hidden away somewhere, so he attempts to manipulate his friend to reveal the location of the loot. It's billed as a Karloff and Lugosi feature - but some recasting shenanigans meant that they never ended up appearing in a scene together, but that doesn't really matter - this is more of a sci-fi thriller than a horror film, and neither of their performance are really much to write home about, anyway. The star is Ridges who juggles his split personalities quite well whilst Arthur Lubin keeps the story moving along well enough. Sadly, though, it's all just a bit unremarkable with a fairly standard structure and ending.