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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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| 2025 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 
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| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 
| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 
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