☆ ☆ ½
Black
Friday (1940) – A. Lubin
Karloff is dapper as the doctor who
illegally performs a brain transplant to save his friend, a professor of
English literature. But the picture
really belongs to Stanley Ridges who, as the professor who has the brain of a
gangster inserted into his head, has to act out these dual personalities. Of course, Karloff has ulterior motives for
the transplant as well – the gangster had hidden $500K just before he was
killed (by Bela Lugosi and other former gang members) and Karloff hopes that
the professor will remember where it is, with his new brain. But things take a turn for the worse when the
professor essentially becomes the gangster.
Since the film begins with Karloff being walked to the electric chair,
you get no points for guessing how this will end. Solid tale from the Karloff and Lugosi heyday
(but the latter has only a bit part this time).
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