Bowery at Midnight

1942 CrimeHorror 63 minutes Directed by Wallace Fox

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About Bowery at Midnight

A man who runs a Bowery soup kitchen and teaches criminology uses the mission as a front. His gang robs, kills, and works on corpses. The police close in. Bela Lugosi plays the man with the two jobs. John Archer is billed with him.

Cast & crew

More about Bowery at Midnight

Wallace Fox directed. Sam Katzman produced. Mack Stengler photographed. Edward J. Kay composed. Monogram released it on December 4, 1942. The listed length is 63 minutes. Astor Pictures reissued it in 1949. Wanda McKay, Tom Neal, and Vince Barnett are billed. A copy is on the Internet Archive as Bowery_at_Midnight.

Themes

  • A soup kitchen used as a gang's front
  • A criminology class and a crime ring
  • Work done on corpses
  • Bowery
  • soup kitchen
  • Lugosi
  • Monogram
  • Wallace Fox

Look

Mack Stengler shot the mission and the night robberies.

Music

Edward J. Kay composed the score.

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • The classroom and the mission are the same man.
  • The 1949 release is an Astor reissue, not a new picture.
  • Dave O'Brien and J. Farrell MacDonald are on the cast list.
  • Katzman produced it for Monogram.

Scenes

  • The mission door opens onto the gang, not onto a meal.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (Bowery_at_Midnight)