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Bowery at Midnight

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1942 film by Wallace Fox

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5.1

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.

Released: 1942-10-3062 minDir: Wallace FoxCrime, Horror, Action

Cast

  • Bela Lugosi as Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner
  • John Archer as Richard Dennison
  • Wanda McKay as Judy Malvern
  • Tom Neal as Frankie Mills
  • Vince Barnett as Charley
  • Anna Hope as Mrs. Brenner

Themes

  • social worker
  • escaped convict
  • murder
  • back from the dead
  • police detective
  • police raid
  • criminologist
  • hidden room
  • poverty row
  • soup kitchen

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Ratings

IMDb

5.3/10

1,432 votes

Year
1942
Runtime
61 min
Genres
Crime, Horror, Thriller

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
film
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English language
Director
Wallace Fox
Cinematographer
Mack Stengler
Duration
63
FilmAffinity ID
420320
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publication date
1942-01-01
title
Bowery at Midnight
Commons category
Bowery at Midnight
distributed by
Monogram Pictures
copyright status
public domain
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