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| Director: | Wallace Fox |
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| Writer: | Sam Robins, Gerald Schnitzer |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 30, 1942 |
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| Director: | Wallace Fox |
| Writer: | Sam Robins, Gerald Schnitzer |
| Genres: | Action, Horror, Crime |
| Keywords | social worker, escaped convict, murder, back from the dead, police detective, police raid, criminologist, hidden room, poverty row, soup kitchen, inner city life, wanted killer, graves in cellar |
| Production Companies | Monogram Pictures, Banner Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 02, 2025 Entered: Apr 24, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Harry 'Snub' Pollard | Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited) |
| Bernard Gorcey | Shopkeeper (uncredited) |
| Willy Castello | Jeweler (uncredited) |
| Bob Reeves | Henchman (unconfirmed) (uncredited) |
| Walter McGrail | Coroner (uncredited) |
| Jack Kenney | Usher (uncredited) |
| Ralph Littlefield | Cards-player Tramp (uncredited) |
| Pat Costello | Tramp questioned by Richard (uncredited) |
| Eddie Hall | Tramp playing checkers at 'Friendly Mission' (uncredited) |
| Theodore Lorch | Tramp Playing Checkers at Friendly Mission (uncredited) |
| Victor Adamson | Tramp (uncredited) |
| Bobby Stone | Newsboy (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Sam Robins | Original Story |
| Gerald Schnitzer | Screenplay |
| Glen Glenn | Sound Engineer |
| Dave Milton | Art Direction |
| Carl Pierson | Editor |
| Mack Stengler | Director of Photography |
| Edward J. Kay | Original Music Composer |
| Arthur Hammond | Assistant Director |
| Wallace Fox | Director |
| Name | Title |
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| Sam Katzman | Producer |
| Jack Dietz | Producer |
| Barney A. Sarecky | Producer |
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