Ramsey tumbling ever further down the rabbit hole, trying to decide what to make of Dr.
Monroe’s daughter Laurie ( Patricia Blair), who helps Ramsey uncover the mystery of Cadman’s experiments. Also working as an assistant in Cadman’s lab is Dr. Lurking the corridors of the castle, he is commanded by the stern mistress Daphne ( Phyllis Stanley), a throwback to the matrons of the old dark house films. Monroe, who has come in for a tumour removal gone wrong. Lon Chaney’s character Mungo turns out to be a former surgeon himself, a Dr. as Mungo, Tor Johnson as Curry, Sally Yarnell as “female monster”, Bela Lugosi as the mute butler and last but not least John Carradine as Borg the Bohemond - the only speaking monster. Thus we get a mostly mute monster menagerie including Lon Chaney, Jr. For contractual reasons, most of these lose the ability to speak, because of union rules that meant actors in non-speaking roles could be paid less than those in speaking roles. Those who do not die on the operating table usually sustain brain damage and become “monsters”. But in order to do so, he also needs healthy test subjects for his experiments - procured by Odo who slips them “The Black Death”. Cadman is experimenting with brain tumour removal in order to save his wife Angelina ( Louanna Gardner), who has been in a coma for seven months. With the help of Gypsy tattooer and bodysnatcher Odo ( Akim Tamiroff), Ramsey is passed off as dead to the world, and begins a new life as the assistant of Dr. Cadman’s murky old mansion, filled with secret passages, hidden doors, a monster-filled dungeon and a state of the art neurosurgery room.
On the eve before his hanging, he is visited by the ominous Sir Joel Cadman ( Basil Rathbone), who administers to him a drug he calls “Nind Andhera” “The Black Sleep”, seemingly an equivalent of puffer fish tetrodotoxin used by voodoo priests to create suspended animation. Gordon Ramsey ( Herbert Rudley) who is wrongly committed of murder and sentenced to hang. Set in London in 1872, The Black Sleep follows Dr.
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