Murders in the Rue Morgue
In 19th-century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship, but repeatedly fails as the abducted women die.
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Robert Florey
Charles S. Gould
Joseph A. McDonough
Scott R. Beal
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Bela Lugosi is at his most rigid best in this eerily spooky adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story. It's 1800s Paris and amidst the fog and the cobblestones streets, young women are being kidnapped and disappearing without trace. What's this to do with "Mirakle" (Lugosi)? Well we quite quickly discover that he is working on a Darwin-esque plan to prove the relationship between human beings and apes. To prove his theories, he is using the blood from his more hirsute helpers to contaminate his guinea pigs, but as yet to no avail. When he alights on the young "Camille" (Sidney Fox) her boyfriend, medical student "Dupin" (Leon Ames) starts to piece things together but how on earth is he going to convince the gendarmerie? I really quite enjoyed this hour of megalomanic science, peppered with some acceptable co-starring and a reasonably tight script as the tension of the adventure is managed quite effectively by Robert Florey towards a denouement that has a soupçon more jeopardy than you might expect. Of course, the role given to Fox is little better than that of one tied to a rail track, but she still manages to exude just enough of a sense of panic to keep things interesting and it's a decent example of an early, at times even scary, talkie.
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The directors of Murders in the Rue Morgue are Robert Florey, Charles S. Gould, Joseph A. McDonough, and Scott R. Beal.
The cast of Murders in the Rue Morgue includes Brandon Hurst as Prefect of Police, Charles Gemora as Erik, the Gorilla (uncredited), Noble Johnson as Janos The Black One, Dorothy Vernon as Tenant (uncredited), Michael Visaroff as Mirakle's Sideshow Barker (uncredited), Monte Montague as Workman / Gendarme (uncredited), Iron Eyes Cody as Indian at Sideshow (uncredited), Bela Lugosi as Dr. Mirakle, Joe Bonomo as Gorilla (uncredited), Tempe Pigott as Crone (uncredited), Torben Meyer as The Dane (uncredited), Ted Billings as Sideshow Spectator (uncredited), and more.
The duration of Murders in the Rue Morgue is 1h 1 mins.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue was released on 27 Jan 1932.
Murders in the Rue Morgue is listed under Horror, Mystery, and Crime on Fanbiz.
Murders in the Rue Morgue has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "Bela Lugosi is at his most rigid best in this eerily spooky adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story. It's 1800s Paris and amidst the fog and the cobblestones streets, young women..."
