The Black Sleep (1956)

The Black Sleep (1956) is a mad scientist body horror induced coma uneven but effective talky but entertaining veteran actor overlooked house of crazies Lugosi, Chaney and Carradine in a final reunion matters of the brain throwback marquee exploitation influential monstrous experiments independent horror film with the American reissue title Dr. Cadman's Secret produced by Bel Air Productions, directed by Reginald LeBorg, and written by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. It stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Akim Tamiroff. Tor Johnson appears in a supporting role, produced by Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, as part of a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists, and assembling human wreckage, failed patients, mutilated minds, and ruined legends.

Dead Man's Eyes (1944)

Dead Man's Eyes (1944) is a horror thriller artist-goes-blind murder love triangle film noir from the Inner Sanctum series of the 1940s, starring Lon Chaney Jr and Jean Parker.

Fairly silly and not universally enjoyed, Dead Man's Eyes (1944) is a basic production to say the least, and is fairly static in terms of its acting and direction, and so quite easy to see why it is not so widely enjoyed as other films noir might still be.

Indeed, for a love triangle picture it is even hard to imagine any of the characters having any true feeling for each other, but then in a cinematic landscape where nothing makes total sense, then nothing particularly matters either.

Bad Blonde (1953)

Bad Blonde (1953) is a British boxing noir, with the rough and tumble of the Cockney United Kingdom and the fearsome blonde posturing of Barbara Peyton as a limey femme fatale, successful putting champion boxer Tony Wright — east end good-looker and amateur to pro face-thwacker Johnny Flanagan — off his stroke.

Sid James is super effective as the powerful and charismatic coach with the wisdom of the ages in his cackle, and Frederick Valk plays an unfortunately super-hammed Italian caricature throughout, at a high pitch, playing the solid cuck.

He is a lousy husband of British noir, about to lose his beautiful wife. It's not an uncommon notion in film noir but here it's happening in the god-awful crummy UK, making their own inimitably crummy boxing movie with a lot of energy and manners.