Bela Lugosi
Professor Brenner / Karl Wagner
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Bowery at Midnight: Directed by Wallace Fox. With Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal. 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.
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- Crime, Thriller
- Wallace Fox
- 1942-10-30
Bowery at Midnight (1942) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In the 1942 Monogram horror cheapie "Bowery at Midnight," Bela Lugosi plays quite the enterprising fellow, not just moonlighting...but double moonlighting! By day, he works as a college psychology professor named Frederick Brenner.
Bowery at Midnight is a 1942 American Monogram Pictures horror film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Bela Lugosi and John Archer. [2] The film was re-released by Astor Pictures in 1949.
Bowery at Midnight Edit A 1942 table model television receiver is prominently displayed atop a filing cabinet in Karl Wagner's inner office, but it is only seen in actual operation in one scene, and is an early example of closed-circuit television.
Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses. A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang.
Unknown to his wife, Professor Brenner, who teaches criminal psychology at a New York university, leads a double life as Karl Wagner, who runs a mission in the Bowery at night.
