eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1t173 BLACK FRIDAY 7x9 news photo 1940 Manly P. Hall putting Bela Lugosi into a trance on the set! Date Sold 11/26/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 7" x 9" [18 x 23 cm] News Photo (Learn More) Black Friday, the 1940 Arthur Lubin Universal mad scientist crime murder horror thriller (a wild story of a mad scientist, played by Boris Karloff, whose friend is badly injured in a car crash by a gangster who is fatally wounded, and the scientist is able to save his friend by transplanting part of the brain of the dead gangster into his friend's brain!; unfortunately, his friend then takes on both his own personality and that of the dead gangster, and he becomes a "Jekyll & Hyde", and when he is the gangster, he is seeking revenge against his gang members, including Bela Lugosi in a surprisingly minor role!) starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, and James Craig. Note that Universal incredibly deceptively advertised this movie! The movie was pre-sold as a Karloff/Lugosi film even though Lugosi only has a small part. They gave Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi equal top billing, and the one-sheet has large head shots of both stars, and poor Stanley Ridges, who was actually the star of the movie, is not even pictured on the poster, although they found room for an image of Anne Nagel! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the snipe on the back of the still tells that for the scenes where Lugosi is supposed to be in a "hypnotic sleep", Universal hired Manly P. Hall, "mystic and student of the occult", to actually hypnotize Lugosi ("in a trance") so that he would be convincing in those scenes! We have our doubts as to whether this is entirely true, but it sure makes for a wonderful candid! Also note that this news photo measures 7" x 9" [18 x 23 cm]. Condition: good to very good. There are some diagonal creases in the upper left corner of the image and light rippling and tiny creases in the bottom of the image, caused by the snipe glued to the back. Learn More about condition grades
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