“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!”
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.
Bela Lugosi
Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner
John Archer
Richard Dennison
Wanda McKay
Judy Malvern
Tom Neal
Frankie Mills
Vince Barnett
Charley
Anna Hope
Mrs. Brenner
John Berkes
Fingers Dolan
J. Farrell MacDonald
Capt. Mitchell
Dave O'Brien
Det. Pete Crawford
Lucille Vance
Mrs. Malvern
Bowery at Midnight is a crime, horror, action film released in 1942 exploring themes of social worker, escaped convict, murder, back from the dead, police detective, police raid. Directed by Wallace Fox, it stars Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay. 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.
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