Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things ...
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Cast
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| Bela Lugosi | ... | Professor Brenner aka Karl Wagner | |
| John Archer | ... | Richard Dennison | |
| Wanda McKay | ... | Judy Malvern | |
| Tom Neal | ... | Frankie Mills | |
| Vince Barnett | ... | Charley | |
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Anna Hope | ... | Mrs. Brenner |
| John Berkes | ... | Fingers Dolan | |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | Capt. Mitchell | |
| Dave O'Brien | ... | Pete Crawford | |
| Lucille Vance | ... | Mrs. Malvern | |
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Lew Kelly | ... | Doc Brooks |
| Wheeler Oakman | ... | Stratton | |
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Ray Miller | ... | Big Man |
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Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner 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, Wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar of the soup kitchen. Written by Wheeler Winston Dixon
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back from the dead | romantic rivalry | schizophrenia | dual identity | the bowery manhattan new york city |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!Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
30 October 1942 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Burial at Midnight See more »Company Credits
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MonoColor:
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1.37 : 1
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Prof. Frederick Brenner, alias Karl Wagner: Yas, each day has it's little surprises.
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The story takes place in New York City, but the establishing shot of the college campus where the professor teaches is that of the University of California in Berkeley. See more »Quotes
Fingers Dolan: Who'd a thought yesterday I'd be workin' a high class job with Frankie Mills?Prof. Frederick Brenner, alias Karl Wagner: Yas, each day has it's little surprises.
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Lugosi plays a kind psychology teacher at a local college. He also runs a mission in the bowery where he gets criminals to pull off robberies for him. There's also a silly incidental subplot about raising the dead! This is pretty involved for an hour long movie. Being a Monogram picture it has all their trademarks--tacky sets; mostly atrocious acting; a plot that really doesn't make a whole lot of sense and one of the most unexciting gunfights in screen history.
The acting veers from OK to just embarrassing. Wanda McKay easily gives out the worst performance. Lugosi, always a pro, gives this the best performance possible. And it is nice to see Tom Neal three years before he did the cult classic "Detour".
Not bad--not good but one of the better Monograms Lugosi did. LOVE the clearly marked graves in the basement! I give it a 5.