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Black Friday (1940)

Black Friday poster
Directed by
Arthur Lubin
Genre
horror film, science fiction film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
16
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 59 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A scientist tries to save a friend by transplanting a gangster's brain into his head. The friend then starts acting like the criminal.

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What happens

Black Friday is a 1940 American science fiction horror gangster film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Screenwriter Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in Donovan's Brain (1953) and Hauser's Memory (1970). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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