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Auction History Result 3y130 BLACK FRIDAY candid 8.25x10 still '40 Bela Lugosi hypnotized for most realistic death scene! Date Sold 12/21/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8 1/4" x 10" [21 x 25 cm] Movie Still (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 still shows a great candid image of Lugosi with Manly P. Hall, a "famous Los Angeles student of occult sciences", who supposedly hypnotized Lugosi off camera, and then told him that he was suffocating in a scene, and because he was hypnotized, he really believed he was suffocating, and the director said it was the "most realistic death scene ever filmed"! Also note that this still measures 8 1/4" x 10" [21 x 25 cm]. Condition: very good. There is light rippling in the top, left, and bottom of the still, caused by the snipe glued to the back. Other than the rippling, the still is in nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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