Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Director
Wallace Fox

Main cast
Bela Lugosi; John Archer; Wanda McKay; Tom Neal; Vince Barnett

Genres
Horror, Action, Comedy

Description
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.


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