#i mean it isn't part of the cycle really‚ they were Columbia films‚ but it might as well be; it has an identical set up and format
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Black Friday (1940)
"Dad... your best friend... oh, you couldn't!"
"I saved his life, didn't I?"
"Well, what's the good of that if you've turned him into a criminal?"
#black friday#american cinema#horror film#1940#mad doctor cycle#i mean it isn't part of the cycle really‚ they were Columbia films‚ but it might as well be; it has an identical set up and format#arthur lubin#curt siodmak#eric taylor#boris karloff#bela lugosi#stanley ridges#anne nagel#anne gwynne#virginia brissac#edmund macdonald#paul fix#raymond bailey#john kelly#murray alper#joe king#fun little nonsense horror that functions as a step sibling to the Mad Doctor Cycle Columbia were concurrently producing with Karloff#but actually he wasn't meant to play the doctor here; supposedly he was cast as the unfortunate subject of the doctor's brain swapping#experiments‚ with Lugosi as the doc. Karloff for whatever reason wanted to play the Doc (possibly he felt he couldn't transform himself#well enough in a physical sense‚ being so distinctive) so Ridges became the victim and Lugosi instead took a lesser role as a crime boss#the result is slightly unsatisfactory for fans of the gruesome twosome; while Ridges walks away with the film (he's genuinely brilliant)#Lugosi is wasted in a bit part and Karloff goes through the motions a little. still there's fun to be had‚ not least in the novel approach#to brain transplants (here the body holds the personality and the brain is just organ‚ whereas it's usually the opposite in the genre)#still it all backfires as it usually does.. Siodmak seems to have had a thing for brain swaps‚ it was a pet passion subject#that he revisited several times (most successfully with 1942 novel Donovan's Brain and its 50s film adaptation)
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