Bowery at Midnight (1942)

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.

Released Oct. 30, 1942 62 min None+

Genres: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller

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