MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.
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Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi) abducts young women and injects them with ape blood, in order to create a mate for his talking sideshow ape. Young Pierre Dupin, a young naive medical student and detective (Leon Ames — credited as Leon Waycoff — in the role of Poe's standard detective icon, C. Auguste Dupin). Dupin discovers in the blood a foreign substance, also found in blood of other victims. Neither Madame L'Espanaye nor her daughter are found. Dupin saves his fiancée from the peril.
Credits
- Directed by
- Robert Florey
- Written by
- John Huston, Dale Van Every, Tom Reed
- Cast
- Bela Lugosi, Herman Bing, Leon Ames, Harry Holman, Bert Roach, Charles Gemora, Michael Visaroff, Polly Ann Young, Tempe Pigott, Betty Ross Clarke, Brandon Hurst, Noble Johnson, Sidney Fox, Arlene Francis, Iron Eyes Cody
- Produced by
- Carl Laemmle Jr.
- Cinematography
- Karl Freund
- Music
- Heinz Eric Roemheld
- Edited by
- Milton Carruth
Complete catalog record
MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE. 1932. 6 reels. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe. Credits: Director, Robert Florey. Universal Pictures Corp.; 27Jan32; LP2804.
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