Bowery at Midnight (1942)

10/30/1942 (US) • 1h 2m

Crime, Horror, Action

The monster and the ghoul! One deals in wholesale murder...the other serves as a torture-master of the living dead! See it and shudder!

Overview

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.

Top Billed Cast

Bela Lugosi

Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner

John Archer

Richard Dennison

Wanda McKay

Judy Malvern

Tom Neal

Frankie Mills

Anna Hope

Mrs. Brenner

John Berkes

Fingers Dolan

J. Farrell MacDonald

Capt. Mitchell

Dave O'Brien

Det. Pete Crawford


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

social worker

escaped convict

murder

back from the dead

police detective

police raid

criminologist

hidden room

poverty row

soup kitchen

inner city life

wanted killer

graves in cellar

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