Connection
Black Friday is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Arthur Lubin released in USA on 29 february 1940 with Boris Karloff
Black Friday (1940)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listBlack Friday is a 1940 American science fiction film starring Boris Karloff. Béla Lugosi, although second-billed, has only a small part in the film and does not appear with Karloff.
Writer Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in "Donovan's Brain" and "Hauser's Memory"
Synopsis
The famous Dr. Ernest Sovac's best friend, bookish college professor George Kingsley, is run down while crossing a street. In order to save his friend's life, Sovac implants part of another man's brain into the professor's. Unfortunately, the other man was a gangster who was involved in the accident. The professor recovers but at times behaves like the gangster, and his whole personality changes. Sovac is horrified but also intrigued, because the gangster has hidden $500,000 somewhere in the city. The doctor continues to treat his friend and, when the professor is under the influence of the gangster's brain, Karloff attempts to have the man lead him to the fortune. Béla Lugosi plays a gangster also trying to get his hands on the cash.Actors
Boris Karloff
(Dr. Ernest Sovac)
Bela Lugosi
(Eric Marnay)
Stanley Ridges
(Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon)
Paul Fix
(William Kane)
Anne Nagel
(Sunny Rogers)
Universal Monsters
(1913)
(1913)
(1923)
(1925)
(1927)
(1928)
(1929)
(1929)
(1930)
(1930)
(1931)
(1931)
(1931)
(1932)
(1932)
(1932)
(1932)
(1932)
(1933)
(1934)
(1935)
(1935)
(1935)
(1935)
(1936)
(1936)
(1937)
(1939)
(1939)
(1939)
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
(1941)
(1941)
(1941)
(1941)
(1942)
(1942)
(1942)
(1942)
(1942)
(1942)
(1943)
(1943)
(1943)
(1943)
(1943)
(1943)
(1944)
(1944)
(1944)
(1944)
(1944)
(1944)
(1944)
(1944)
(1945)
(1945)
(1945)
(1945)
(1945)
(1946)
(1946)
(1946)
(1946)
(1948)
(1951)
(1951)
(1952)
(1953)
(1953)
(1954)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1956)
(1956)
(1956)
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1958)
(1958)
(1959)
(1960)
(1965)
(1967)
(1972)
(1974)
(1979)
(1979)
(1987)
(1990)
(1992)
(1994)
(1995)
(1997)
(1999)
(1999)
(2000)
(2001)
(2004)
(2008)
(2009)
(2010)
(2012)
(2012)
(2014)
(2015)
(2017)Universal Science Fiction
(1932)
(1934)
(1936)
(1936)
(1937)
(1938)
(1939)
(1939)
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
(1941)
(1941)
(1942)
(1953)
(1953)
(1954)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1956)
(1956)
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1958)
(1959)
(1960)
(1960)
(1966)
(1966)
(1966)
(1969)
(1970)
(1971)
(1972)
(1972)
(1973)Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Black Friday
There are 325 films with the same actors, 65 films with the same director, 25429 with the same cinematographic genres (including 107 with exactly the same 3 genres than Black Friday), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Black Friday, you will probably like those similar films :
The Invisible Ray (1936)
, 1h20Directed by Arthur Lubin, Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Disaster films
Actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Walter Kingsford, Beulah Bondi
Rating64%
A visionary doctor, Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) invents a telescope that can look far out into space — into the Andromeda Galaxy — and pick up rays of light that will show the Earth's past. Looking at the past on a planetarium-like dome in his lab, a group of assembled scientists as well as Dr. Rukh see a large meteor hit the earth thousands of years ago. Amazed by the demonstration, the group invites Rukh to go on an expedition to find the meteor that appeared to land in Africa. While in Africa, Rukh finds the meteor but is exposed to strong radiation ("Radium X") from the rock, which makes his touch death on the spot. Dr. Benet (Bela Lugosi) develops a serum that holds this effect at bay and takes a piece of the stone back to Europe and uses it to heal people, including curing the blind. Rukh, suffering from the radiation, glows at night when not treated and is slowly losing his mind.
, 21minutesDirected by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about health care, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Noah Beery, Jr, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Crehan, Richard Fraser, Thomas Gomez, Anne Gwynne
Rating56%
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
, 1h26Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, John Mack Brown, Samuel S. Hinds
Rating64%
Though the author of best-selling western novels, 'Bronco Bob' Mitchell (Dick Foran), has never set foot in the west. When a newspaper article has exposed this fact to his fans, he decides to make an appearance at a Long Island charity rodeo. When a steer escapes the enclosure, he is thrown from his horse, and a cowgirl, Anne Shaw (Anne Gwynne), comes to his rescue by bulldogging the steer. During the rescue, she is injured and loses her chance to obtain the $10,000 prize, and returns to her father's dude ranch in Arizona. Bob follows her to make amends.
The Big Guy (1939)
, 1h18Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Victor McLaglen, Jackie Cooper, Ona Munson, Edward Brophy, Peggy Moran, Jonathan Hale
Rating68%
Bill Whitlock has been temporarily promoted from guard to warden at the state penetentiary when he is cruelly informed by the prison board that he is to be demoted. Meanwhile, mechanic Jimmy Hutchins becomes unwittingly involved in a jailbreak when Jack Lang, a confederate of convicts Chuck Burkhart and Buzz Miller, instructs the unsuspecting Jimmy to meet him in the country so that he can show the plans to Jimmy's new motor to some friends. Inside the prison, Burkhart and Miller take Bill hostage and then force Jimmy to drive the getaway car. During the chase, a motorcycle officer is killed, and the escape car runs off the road. Bill shoots the fleeing Burkhart and confiscates the bag of stolen money he finds in the dead man's possession. Embittered by his demotion, Bill decides to keep the booty, while Jimmy is charged with murder. The boy protests his innocence, claiming as his alibi the plans that he was to show Lang, but at the trial, Lang denies his involvement with Jimmy and the boy is sentenced to hang. After the boy's sentencing, Bill discovers Jimmy's plans in the bag with the stolen money, thus thrusting him into a moral dilemma when Jimmy's appeal is denied. After Lang visits Jimmy and tells him about Burkhart's loot, Jimmy accuses Bill of stealing the money and joins in a prison break with Dippy, the prison trustee. As Dippy and Jimmy speed into a police trap, Bill comes to their aid, only to be shot by Dippy. Although he dies before he can testify on Jimmy's behalf, the warden's signed affidavit clears the boy of all charges.
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
, 1h32Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Frank Puglia, Fritz Leiber
Rating63%
Erique Claudin (Claude Rains) had been a violinist at the Paris Opera House for twenty years. However he has been losing the use of the fingers of his left hand, which affects his violin-playing. He is dismissed because of this, the conductor of the opera house assuming that he has enough money to support himself. This is not the case however, for Claudin has spent it all by anonymously funding the music lessons of Christine Dubois (Susanna Foster), a young soprano whom Claudin has secretly fallen in love with. In a desperate attempt to gain money, Claudin tries to get a concerto he has written published. After submitting it and not hearing a response, he becomes worried and returns to the publishers, Maurice Pleyel & Georgette Desjardins, to ask about it. No one there knows what happened to it, and do not seem to care. Claudin persists, but Pleyel rudely tells him to leave and goes back to the etchings he was working on.
Great God Gold (1935)
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Sidney Blackmer, Martha Sleeper, Regis Toomey, Edwin Maxwell, Ralf Harolde, Maria Alba
Rating56%
Honeymoon Limited (1935)
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Neil Hamilton, Irene Hervey, Lloyd Hughes, Russell Hicks, Henry Kolker, George "Gabby" Hayes
Rating56%
, 59minutesDirected by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant, Rondo Hatton, Milburn Stone, Hobart Cavanaugh
Rating57%
Une jeune fille va travailler comme concierge chez une vieille femme effrayante. Elle ne sait pas que chaque nuit, la femme lui draine un peu de sang pour nourrir son étrange plante.
Risky Business (1939)
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Murphy, Dorothea Kent, Eduardo Ciannelli, Leon Ames, El Brendel, Richard Tucker
Rating63%
Hold That Ghost (1941)
, 1h26Directed by Arthur Lubin, John Rawlins
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Adventure, Horror, Musical
Themes Ghost films, Musical films, Comedy horror films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis, Evelyn Ankers, Shemp Howard
Rating72%
Chuck Murray (Bud Abbott) and Ferdie Jones (Lou Costello), gas station attendants, aspire to better jobs waiting tables at Chez Glamour, a high-class nightclub, where Ted Lewis and The Andrews Sisters perform. However, Chuck and Ferdie cause a ruckus and wind up back at the gas station. Gangster "Moose" Mattson (William B. Davidson) brings his car in for servicing, and Chuck and Ferdie are caught inside the vehicle when the gangster speeds off to escape the police. During the chase shots are exchanged, and the gangster is killed by gunfire. However, through a strange clause in his will--which says that whoever is with him when he dies will get whatever he owns--Chuck and Ferdie inherit his rural tavern, the Forrester's Club. Mattson had also given a cryptic clue about a hidden stash of money, stating that he always kept it "in his head," but its existence and location remain a mystery.