The following is a collection of print media from the initial runs of 1956's "The Black Sleep" in the Pacific Northwest. "The Creeping Unknown" was the second movie in both Portland and Seattle.
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The Black Sleep (1956)
Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Writers: Gerald Drayson Adams (story), John C. Higgins (screenplay)
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Bela Lugosi, TorJohnson, Lon Chaney Jr.
The Quatermass Xperiment (AKA "The Creeping Unknown," 1955)
Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
Director: Val Guest
Writers: Richard H. Landau (screenplay), Val Guest(screenplay)
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean
June 6, 1956 ad (Portland)
June 7, 1956 ad (Portland)
June 11, 1956 article (Portland)
June 11, 1956 ad (Portland)
June 13, 1956 ad (Seattle)
June 14, 1956 ad (Seattle)
June 15, 1956 ad (Seattle)
The Black Sleep (1956) trailer
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The Creeping Unknown (1955) trailer
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