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
| Cast overview: | |||
| 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:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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[Cat meows. Scene cuts to kitten standing on grave covered in cat droppings]
Prof. Frederick Brenner, alias Karl Wagner: Doc, how often have I told you to keep that cat from desecrating my graves?
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The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film. See more »Goofs
The New York Police Department precinct depicted is the 45th, which is in the Bronx, not in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan. See more »Quotes
Prof. Frederick Brenner, alias Karl Wagner: Hmm, these mildewed skeletons who sleep so quietly now were once my partners, like Stratton.[Cat meows. Scene cuts to kitten standing on grave covered in cat droppings]
Prof. Frederick Brenner, alias Karl Wagner: Doc, how often have I told you to keep that cat from desecrating my graves?
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A soup Kitchen serves as a front for various criminal activities run by Bela Lugosi.
As Bela's grade Z movies go this one is pretty good. The plot is complicated enough to keep you wondering what is going on. Of course things get a bit wonky towards the end as all of the people and plot points come crashing together.
Certainly not the worst that Bela turned out in his very up and down career. I don't know if I'd search this out, but late at night if it was on I certainly wouldn't turn it off, unless I needed sleep since it won't put you out.
6 out of 10