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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