Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things ... See full summary »

Director:

Wallace Fox

Writers:

Gerald Schnitzer (original story), Gerald Schnitzer (screenplay),

Stars:

Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay

Cast

Cast overview:
Bela Lugosi	...	Professor Brenner / 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	...	Pete Crawford
Lucille Vance	...	Mrs. Malvern
Lew Kelly	...	Doc Brooks
Wheeler Oakman	...	Stratton
Ray Miller	...	Big Man

Storyline

Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Lugosi kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar of the soup kitchen.

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Plot Keywords:

soup | soup kitchen | criminal | gang | cellar | 

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Taglines:

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!

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Genres:

Crime | Thriller

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 October 1942 (USA)

Also Known As:

Burial at Midnight

Company Credits

Production Co:

Banner Productions, Monogram Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

61 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the background of one scene there is a poster for the movie The Corpse Vanishes which stars Bela Lugosi.

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Quotes

Prof. Frederick Brenner, alias Karl Wagner: Buck! How often have I told you to keep that cat from desecrating my graves?

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Connections

Featured in Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997)

User Reviews

Bela Lugosi at his best.

Bela Lugosi, both a wonderful actor and very fine gentleman, comes across perfectly in this role. Things like body language, eye contact, voice inflection, all of it done beautifully. The plot, containing as many little surprising twists and turns as the Bowery mission contains secret panels and hidden doors, is a neat story and it flows well. The other players fit their roles very well. The continuity is good. And then there are those other added attractions, like thinking you just saw Lou Costello playing a Bowery bum. Nope, you didn't, but you're close. Its his older brother, and almost twin, Pat Costello. Things like that make this movie great fun. Add a pretty nurse, a crazy doctor, and what do you have? A "B" movie that deserves at least a B+.