Black Friday (1940)

Science Fiction
Crime
Horror

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.

Cast

Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon
Stanley Ridges
Dr. Ernest Sovac
Boris Karloff
Louis Devore
Raymond Bailey
Chief of Police
Joe King
Taxi Driver
John Kelly
Nurse
Jessie Arnold
2nd Nurse
E Elfriede Borodin
Student
Tommy Conlon
Club Maitre d' (uncredited)
F Franco Corsaro
Reporter Ernst Gives Notes To
James Craig
Detective
Kernan Cripps
Det. Farnow
Eddie Dunn
Eric Marnay
Bela Lugosi
Detective
Edward Earle
Prison Doctor
Harry Hayden
Fat Man in Bar
F Frank Jaquet
Midtown Hotel Maid
E Ellen Lowe
Midtown Hotel Clerk
Jerry Marlowe
Cabbie
Jerry Marlowe
Student
Wallace Reid Jr.
G-Man
W William Ruhl
Prison Chaplain
Frank Sheridan
Dr. Warner
Edwin Stanley
Sunny Rogers
Anne Nagel
Cabbie
Harry Tenbrook
Det. Carpenter
Emmett Vogan
Student
Russell Wade
Student
Dave Willock
G-Man
V Victor Zimmerman
Hotel Associate
R Robert Morgan
Jean Sovac
Anne Gwynne
Mrs. Margaret Kingsley
Virginia Brissac
Frank Miller
Edmund MacDonald
William Kane
Paul Fix
Bellhop
Murray Alper
Bartender
Jack Mulhall

Crew

Director
Arthur Lubin
Screenplay
C Curt Siodmak
Screenplay
E Eric Taylor
Director of Photography
E Elwood Bredell
Editor
P Philip Cahn
Associate Producer
B Burt Kelly
Art Direction
J Jack Otterson
Costume Design
V Vera West
Sound
C Charles Carroll
Makeup Artist
Jack Pierce
Music Director
H Hans J. Salter
Original Music Composer
Frank Skinner