Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
Boris Karloff
as Dr. Thomas Bolton
Betta St. John
as Susan
Christopher Lee
as Resurrection Joe
Finlay Currie
as Supt. Charles Matheson
Adrienne Corri
as Rachel
Francis de Wolff
as Black Ben
Francis Matthews
as Jonathan Bolton
Frank Pettingell
as Mr. Blount
Basil Dignam
as Hospital Chairman
Nigel Green
as Insp. Donovan
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A lot of fun watching two great horror icons together like Boris Karloff and Sir Christopher Lee. I'm so glad The Criterion Collection bothered putting this foursome out in their 'Monsters and Madmen' boxed set. Such a guilty pleasure to behold, in its intriguing period-piece script of a well-meanin...
John Chard
I'm so close to surgery without pain. Dr. Thomas Bolton is one of London's top surgeons, brilliant and fast, he is however constantly troubled by the amount of pain his patients go through, for this be a time before anaesthesia. Painstakingly working on a formula to put patients to sleep during ...