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Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1932
Running Times: 75m
Length:
Format:
Colour Format: black and white
Aspect Ratio:
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Director: Robert Florey
CREW
 PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Presented By: Carl Laemmle
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr
Associate Producer: E.M. Asher
SCRIPT
Script: Tom Reed, Dale Van Every, Ethel M. Kelly (?)
Adaptation: Robert Florey
Scenario Editor: E. Richard Schayer
Story: Edgar Allan Poe
Additional Dialogue: John Huston
DIRECTION
Assistant Directors: Scott R. Beal, Joseph A. McDonough, Charles S.
Gould
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Karl Freund
EDITING
Supervising Editor: Maurice Pivar
Editor: Milton Carruth
MUSIC
Musical Director: Heinz Roemheld (uncredited)
Music: Heinz Roemheld (uncredited)
SOUND
Recording Director: C. Roy Hunter
Sound: Western Electric
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jack P. Pierce (uncredited)
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: John P. Fulton
Special Processes: Frank D. Williams (uncredited)
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Charles D. Hall
Set Designer: Herman Rosse
MISCELLANEOUS
Technical Advisor: Howard Salemson (uncredited)
STUNTS
Stunt Double For Charles Gemora: Joe Bonomo
CAST
Bela Lugosi (Doctor Mirakle)
Sidney Fox (Mlle Camille L'Espanaye)
Leon Waycoff (rn: Leon Ames) (Pierre Dupin)
Bert Roach (Paul)
Brandon Hurst (prefect of police)
Noble Johnson (Janos the black one)
D'Arcy Corrigan (morgue keeper)
Betty Ross Clarke (Madame L'Espanaye)
Arlene Francis (woman of the streets)
UNCREDITED CAST
Edna Marion (Mignette)
Charlotte Henry, Polly Ann Young (girls)
Herman Bing (Franz Odenheimer)
Agostino Borgato (Alberto Montani)
Harry Holman (landlord)
Torben Meyer (the Dane)
John T. Murray, Christian J. Frank (gendarmes)
Dorothy Vernon (tenant)
Michael Visaroff, Ted Billings (men)
Charles T. Millsfield (bearded man at sideshow)
Monte Montague (workman / gendarme)
Charles Gemora (Erik the ape)
Joe Bonomo
Harrison Greene (barker)
Tempe Pigott (crone)
PLOT SUMMARY
Paris, the 19th century: to prove his theories on
the relationship between Man and Ape, the mad Dr Mirakle takes to abducting
young women and injecting them with ape blood. But his experiments invariably
end with the deaths of his subjects. When he abducts Camille, Mirakle
comes to the attention of medical student Pierre Dupin who joins forces
with the police to try to find her before it's too late.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures
Video Distributor: MCA Universal
TIMELINE
1932
February
21: USA - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic story of the horrors of Paris
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Il Dottor Miracolo - Italian title
LINKS
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Universal Horror (1998)
SEE ALSO
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1914)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Video Watchdog 14 p.12
review
BOOKS
The Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror (2nd
edition) pp.53-54
review, credits
Universal Horrors
article (by Michael Brunas, John Brunas and Tom Weaver)
KEYWORDS
mad doctors; scientists; apes; blood; students
Last Updated:
6 January, 2010
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