62 minutes
10/30/1942
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.
Bela Lugosi
as Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner
John Archer
as Richard Dennison
Wanda McKay
as Judy Malvern
Tom Neal
as Frankie Mills
Vince Barnett
as Charley
Anna Hope
as Mrs. Brenner
John Berkes
as Fingers Dolan
J. Farrell MacDonald
as Capt. Mitchell
Dave O'Brien
as Det. Pete Crawford
Lucille Vance
as Mrs. Malvern
Lew Kelly
as Doc Brooks
Wheeler Oakman
as "Trigger" Stratton
Ray Miller
as The Big Tramp
George Eldredge
as Det. Thompson (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
as Police Chief Martin (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
as Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
Bernard Gorcey
as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Willy Castello
as Jeweler (uncredited)
Bob Reeves
as Henchman (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
Walter McGrail
as Coroner (uncredited)
Jack Kenney
as Usher (uncredited)
Ralph Littlefield
as Cards-player Tramp (uncredited)
Pat Costello
as Tramp questioned by Richard (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
as Tramp playing checkers at 'Friendly Mission' (uncredited)
Theodore Lorch
as Tramp Playing Checkers at Friendly Mission (uncredited)
Victor Adamson
as Tramp (uncredited)
Bobby Stone
as Newsboy (uncredited)