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Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1942
Running Times: 61 mins     63 mins
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Monogram Pictures Corporation
Producer: Jack Dietz, Sam Katzman
Associate Producer: Barney A. Sarecky

SCRIPT
Script / Story: Gerald Schnitzer

DIRECTION
Director: Wallace Fox
Assistant Director: Arthur Hammond

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Mack Stengler

EDITING
Editor: Carl Pierson

MUSIC
Musical Director: Edward Kay

SOUND
Sound Engineer: Glen Glenn

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Dave Milton

CAST
Bela Lugosi (Professor Brenner / Karl Wagner)
Wanda McKay (Judy Malvern)
John Archer (Richard Dennison)
Dave O'Brien (Pete Crawford)
Lew Kelly (Doc Brooks)
Wheeler Oakman (Stratton)
Tom Neal (Frankie Mills)
John Berkes (Fingers Dolan)
Vince Barnett (Charley)
Ray Miller (Big Man)
J. Farrell MacDonald (Captain Mitchell)
Anna Hope (Mrs Brenner)
Lucille Vance (Mrs Malvern)
Bernard Gorcey (shopkeeper)
Bob Reeves (uncredited)

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Monogram Pictures Corporation; Astor Pictures Corporation (1949 reissue)
Video Distributor: Admit One Video; LS Video

TIMELINE

1942
October

30: USA - theatrical release

1949
USA - theatrical reissue

1953
July

1: USA - television broadcast (on WPIX)

POSTER TAGS

The monster and the ghoul! One deals in wholesale murder... The other serves as a torture-master of the living dead! See it and shudder!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Burial at Midnight

LINKS

SEE ALSO
The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Favorite Westerns and Serial World no.32 (1989) p.19 (USA)
credits

Kinematograph Weekly no.1879 (22 April 1943) (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.10 p.50 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Motion Picture Herald vol,149 no.1 (3 October 1942) (UK)
review

Starlog no.202 (May 1994) pp.60 - 65
illustrated article

Today's Cinema vol.60 no.4867 (20 April 1943) (UK)
review

BOOKS

Hoffman's Guide to Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.54
credits, review

Horror and Science Fiction Films II p.43
credits

The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie Guide p.38
credits, review

Poverty Row Horrors
article (by Tom Weaver)

Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.44
credits

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

 


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