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Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Bowery at Midnight poster
Directed by
Wallace Fox
Genre
horror film, science fiction film, crime film, zombie film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 03m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A kindly man named Karl runs a soup kitchen for the poor. By night, he uses his charity work to recruit people into a gang of criminals and grave robbers. The story involves a mad doctor and experiments that bring the dead back to life.

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What happens

Bowery at Midnight is a 1942 American Monogram Pictures horror film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Bela Lugosi and John Archer. The film was re-released by Astor Pictures in 1949. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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