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Black Friday (1940 film)

Black Friday
Directed byArthur Lubin
Screenplay by
Starring
CinematographyElwood Bredell
Edited byPhilip Cahn
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • February 29, 1940 (1940-02-29) (Chicago)
  • April 12, 1940 (1940-04-12) (United States)
Running time
70 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$125,750[3][4]

Black Friday is a 1940 American science fiction horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.[5]

Screenwriter Curt Siodmak would revisit this theme again in Donovan's Brain (1953) and Hauser's Memory (1970).[6]

  1. ^ "Black Friday (1940)". Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. August 30, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference afi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Weaver, Brunas & Brunas 2007, p. 214.
  4. ^ Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 117. ISBN 9780813158891.
  5. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Black Friday (1940)". allmovie. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  6. ^ Stephen Jacobs, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomahawk Press 2011 p 256-257

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