Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

Review: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

Director: Robert Florey

Cast: Bela Lugosi, Leon Ames, Sidney Fox, Bert Roach, Noble Johnson,

Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi
Leon Ames
Leon Ames
Sidney Fox
Sidney Fox
Bert Roach
Bert Roach
Noble Johnson
Noble Johnson

Plot: In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back.

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Recent Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases

Recent Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases

Two recent two-disk sets released by Eureka in England provide two very different forms of popular entertainment. Two Films by John Woo contains a pair of top-notch martial arts movies from the first stage of Woo’s career, before he hit it […]

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