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It's Classic Cretins and Creatures Tonight- When "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"!

Tonight on MeTV- we bring back another film that includes both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi- but with a bit of unusual casting! Boris stars as a doctor who tries to save his friend by performing an illegal brain transplant; resulting in turning the man into a Jekyll-and-Hyde case- going from mild-mannered professor to murderous mobster. Bela is, surprisingly, in the role of a gangster, a rival of mobster/professor! This eerie transplant results in the doctor who performed it becoming a selfish agitator urging the kindly professor’s new gangster persona on, to benefit his own agenda. Black hearts and dark deeds mark- “Black Friday”!

Dr. Ernest Sovac ( Karlof...

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