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VHS : Black FridayIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne directed by: Arthur Lubin  List Price: $14.98 Price: $8.00 You Save: $6.98 (47%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303506241 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC ISBN: 6303506240 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Release Date: August 08, 1995 Running Time: 70 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: April 12, 1940 Sales Rank: 42228 Related Items: Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A classic horror film!A college professor is mortally wounded , when he is in the wrong place. To save his life the surgeon will transplant the brain of one the gangsters into professor's body. The chain of dramatic and suspenseful events aroused from this fact will hold att the edge of your seat in this classic of horror. Rating: - FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE GANGSTERS! OR THE ORIGINAL 'FRIDAY THE 13TH!This is an old favorite of mine and it is why I look past some of it's flaws. This is yet another Karloff and Lugosi film but, this one is more of a Sci-fi/gangster picture. Surprisingly Stanley Ridges is the real star of this film and he gives a very convincing performance in a Jekyll and Hyde role. Lugosi has a small shining moment near the end of the picture. Karloff plays a mad doctor again but, he does do it so well. This film is available on DVD and the transfer looks very good. The set is ... Read More Rating: - KARLOFF AND LUGOSI BUT RIDGES GIVES THE BEST PERFORMANCEBlack Friday is included on DVD for the first time as a part of the Bela Lugosi collection and its inclusion is dubious at best. The fact is that Boris Karloff has far more screen time than Lugosi in this murder/crime thriller. In fact, the movie truly belongs to Stanley Ridges in his dual role as Professor Kingley and gangster Red Cannon. Karloff is Dr. Sovac who saves his friend Kingley's life by removing part of the Gangster Cannon's brain and putting into Kingsley's head. Cannon dies and Kingsley ... Read More Rating:  - Ridges is the star hereA Jekyll-and-Hyde inspired movie, Stanley Ridges plays a professor who becomes the innocent victim of a gangland shootout, and in order to save his life, Boris Karloff, playing a surgeon, transplants the brain of one of the criminals into Ridges' skull (shades of Peter Lorre in MAD LOVE). Soon Ridges begins acting like the criminal (named Red Cannon), and when the greedy Karloff learns that Cannon has half-a-million bucks stashed away someplace in NYC, he and Ridges go after it. Ridges keeps changing back ... Read More Rating:  - A Disappointing Genre-Bender"Black Friday" (1940) survives as a rarity in cinema history: the gangster-horror film. Unfortunately, the reteaming of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi was jettisoned during preproduction - leaving poor Bela with a minor supporting role and Boris playing second fiddle to Stanley Ridges (who delivers an excellent Jekyll and Hyde characterization originally intended for Karloff). Though "Black Friday" moves at a fairly good clip, it remains one of Universal's lesser thrillers. Browse for similar items by category: 
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