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Basil Rathbone,(Sir Joel Cadman) played a different role in this picture and was not the clever detective Sherlock Holmes. Sir Joel Cadman was a doctor who specialized in the brain of human beings and needed the assistance of Dr. Gordan Ramsay,(Herbert Rudley) who was going to be hanged for killing someone. However, Sir Joel had a special drug which will make a person look dead and still be very much alive, so he administered the drug to Dr. Ramsay and he was able to escape being hanged. Sir Joel needed Dr. Ramsy who is a very famous brain surgeon and is much needed in his experiments. Odo the Gypsy,(Akim Tominoff) played a very funny role as a body snatcher for Sir Joel and the human people had to be alive and kicking in order for him to operate on their brain. Bela Lugosi, (Cosmir) played the role as a servant who could not speak and was as quiet as a church mouse and never killed anyone for a change. Some of Sir Joel patients consisted of Lon Chaney, Jr., (Mungo, Dr. Munroe) and John Carrandine, (Bohemund) who all seemed to have some mental and physical defect. If you like all these Horror Actors from 1956, you will definitely want to see this film in Black & White.
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