Its owner, the indianborn jimmy rizvi, is eyeing the bowery for his latest vision. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. I just started watching lugosis poverty row films for the first time. Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology karl wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. By day he is a respected professor of criminal psychology as the city university. A button that says download on the app store, and if clicked it. Bowery at midnight 1942 stars bela lugosi in one of his many poverty row films, a time when lugosi. By night, proprietor of a soupkitchen that serves as the base for his criminal activities.
Mar 14, 2017 thought its title suggests a link with the 1940s bowery boys films, bowery at midnight 1942 is not part of that series, but does connect to them through the studio and its two leads actors. My bowery is the lugosi enterprises dvd, and i wanted to ask about what seems to be a short bit of missing footage. After bela lugosis career in a pictures started to wane, he notoriously started appearing in pictures for poverty row studios, and at the forefront of this era was the nine he did for monogram pictures during the 1940s this was the major studios loss and a. Sophie tucker appeared there, as did the three stooges, danny thomas and many others. The corpse vanishes 1942 bowery at midnight 1942 bluray. Bowery at midnight 1942 nr 10301942 us comedy, crime, horror, action 1h 1m user score. I was wasted late last night, a young girl asked me for a light i felt like id been here before when the demon life is a open door come. Dec 27, 2017 bowery at midnight 1942 action, crime, drama, thriller film gorillas. Bowery at midnight casts bela lugosi as professor brenner, a psychology instructor at new york university which looks a lot like berkeley in the exterior shots. Bowery at midnight 1942 page 5 classic horror film board. Gramercys hip new indian restaurant gupshup will soon have a lower east side sibling. My fathers house has many rooms, goes the good book, but i doubt that any heavenly mansion can match the friendly mission of the bowery in southern manhattan, the setting for 1942s bowery at midnight, where every room leads to a secret room, concealed by a revolving bookcase, or revealed by a hidden lever. Apr 29, 2012 i just started watching lugosis poverty row films for the first time.
When not enlightening his students most of them buxom monogram starlets brenner is engaged in charitable work, running a mission in the bowery. It is not nearly as successful as the corpse vanishes, but as it has lugosi attempting to play two roles but really one has its fair share of spoofy and hokum moments. Site chosen is 245 bowery, at the corner of stanton street, where cata held court for six years until its demise. The bowery night club was one of the finest night clubs in. I started with bowery at midnight and the devil bat, and want to see mysterious mr. The corpse vanishes 1942bowery at midnight 1942 bluray director. Bela lugosi is leading three lives in this movie and even has time to sleep.
How often have i told you to keep that cat from desecrating my graves. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. Bowery at midnight, dvd, manufactured on demand, horror, 644827238125. The bowery night club was one of the finest night clubs in the midwest.
You dont buy a dvd like bowery at midnight expecting crystal clarity, but to experience a touch of nostalgia from the fringes of hollywood. Aug 25, 2016 released 1942 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. With bela lugosi, john archer, wanda mckay, tom neal. During the 1940s and early 1950s, the club hosted some of the leading acts in show business. Theres certainly no sign of logic in wallace foxs bowery at midnight 1942, the fifth of bela lugosis notorious monogram nine. Lugosis character uses his soup kitchen as a means to. Bowery at midnight manufactured on demand on tcm shop. Bowery at midnight is a 1942 american horror film directed by wallace fox and starring bela lugosi and john archer. During nights in a bowery food shelter karl wagner bela lugosi takes in men who are hungry a cares for them by having his nurse assistant judy malvern wanda mckay tend to their medical needs. Goldstar video corporations tales of horror series, 1992 charles witt october 5, 2017 at 3. Bowery at midnight 1942 stars bela lugosi in one of his many poverty row films, a time when lugosi was on the outs with the major studios and subsequently worked with independent studios like monogram and prc.
The transfers are as good as can be expected, however, and the overall result is that roan releases may not look or sound great, but theyre authentic and charming in a lowbudget, nofrills kind of way. Bowery at midnight leads off on an eightfilm, twodisc dvd compilation of poverty rowearly roger corman flicks. Bowery at midnight 1942 is a horror film starring bela lugosi. But by then, katzman and lugosi were already at work on bowery at midnight. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of. Top comments bowery at midnight does not have any comments yet. By night, proprietor of a soupkitchen that serves as the base for his criminal.
Bowery at midnight 1942 bela lugosi crime, thriller movie. At night hes taking advantage of the same people forcing them to do his illegal crimes including murder. Eventually these young kids from the streets of new york became bonified celebrities, known as the bowery boys and starred in over 50 films and serials. Lugosi plays a psychology professor by day who, secretly and under an assumed name, runs a bowery soup kitchen by night called the bowery friendly mission. Nov 06, 2014 bowery at midnight was released in 1942 and stars bela lugosi as karl wagner, a professor who also works in a food shelter called bowery friendly mission, where all is not quite what it seems.
He plays a character who uses three different guises during the course of the film. In his spare time, he is a kindly dogooder who runs a soup kitchen in the bowery. Bela lugosi, john archer, wanda mckay, tom neal, vince barnett. Bowery at midnight 1942 bela lugosi crime, thriller movie film on dvd ebay. After their success on broadway, the dead end kids were recruited by hollywood. Bowery at midnight casts bela lugosi as professor brenner, a psychology instructor at new york. Bowery at midnight 1942 criminology professor brenner bela lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a gang committing robberies and murders. King of the zombies bowery at midnight mountain xpress. Information from its description page there is shown below. This is a multiregion region 0all dvd, and should play on most dvd players in the world. Bowrey at midnight, another fast flick from 1942 for monogram is also directed by fox, is also on the disc. Bowery at midnight 1942 out of 4 professor karl wagner bela lugosi is a highly respected man who helps run a food kitchen that feeds homeless and poor people.
Monogram starlets brenner is engaged in charitable work, running a mission in the bowery. The club was operated by frank barbaro, who lost it to his wife in a divorce in the early 1950s. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Soup kitchen operator and criminologist bela lugosi operates a soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of robberies and murders. Simply stated, bowery at midnight is one of the best of the poverty row pics made by monogram studios with bela lugosi in the forties. Wallace fox kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology bela lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who. When things get out of hand, wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar of the soup kitchen. Bowery at midnight by the shoutless, released 10 january 1986 1. Ogg multiplexed audiovideo file, theoravorbis, length 1 h 1 min 36 s, 400. Oct 17, 2000 no quotes approved yet for bowery at midnight. Bowery at midnight gives lugosi a chance to stretch his acting legs.