Bowery at Midnight
“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!”
1942•NR•1h 2m•5.0•Released
CrimeHorrorAction
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.
Director
Wallace Fox
Writer
Gerald Schnitzer
Languages
English
Studio
Monogram Pictures
Cast
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
Lew Kelly
Doc Brooks
Wheeler Oakman
"Trigger" Stratton
Ray Miller
The Big Tramp
George Eldredge
Det. Thompson (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Police Chief Martin (uncredited)
Production
Company
Monogram Pictures
Company
Banner Productions
Producer
Jack Dietz
Producer
Sam Katzman
Producer
Barney A. Sarecky
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