BLACK FRIDAY (1940) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Arthur Lubin
Boris Karloff, Stanley Ridges, Bela Lugosi,
Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, Virginia Brissac
Karloff saves a friend's life by transplanting a criminal's brain into the man's skull. Why is it that every time Boris does something like that, something bad happens? A minor entry in the archive of Karloff/Lugosi collaborations, more like a Monogram crime thriller than a Universal horror. Bela has a relatively small part as a gangster, which makes you wonder why he's not playing the Jekyll-&-Hyde character - the mild-mannered professor with the murderous new brain - instead.
