Black Friday (1940)

Movie Details

Original Title Black Friday

Original Language EN

Budget $125,750

Status Released

Popularity 0.4

Cast

Stanley Ridges

Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon

Popularity: 0.9

Boris Karloff

Dr. Ernest Sovac

Popularity: 3.3

Bela Lugosi

Eric Marnay

Popularity: 0.7

Anne Nagel

Sunny Rogers

Popularity: 1.8

Anne Gwynne

Jean Sovac

Popularity: 0.6

Virginia Brissac

Mrs. Margaret Kingsley

Popularity: 0.3

Edmund MacDonald

Frank Miller

Popularity: 2.6

Paul Fix

William Kane

Popularity: 5.6

Murray Alper

Bellhop

Popularity: 1.2

Jack Mulhall

Bartender

Popularity: 0.3

Raymond Bailey

Louis Devore

Popularity: 1.2

Joe King

Chief of Police

Popularity: 0.3

Key Crew

Screenplay Curt Siodmak, Eric Taylor

Director Arthur Lubin

Editor Philip Cahn

Production

Universal Pictures

Videos & Trailers

BLACK FRIDAY "From now on, you do exactly as I say" Clip

Clip

Official Trailer

Trailer

Universal Horror Collection: Vol. 1 - Black Friday (1940) - Clip: You've Been Ill (HD)

Clip

Joe Dante on BLACK FRIDAY

Featurette

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Keywords

experiment gangster professor murder mad doctor car accident brain surgeon hidden loot brain transplant hidden money

Reviews from TMDB

JPV852 5/10

Aug 28, 2019

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 5/10

Jun 23, 2022

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 t ... Read more