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Release Year

1932

Tagline

Innocent Beauty - this was her wedding eve. On the wall a shadow . . the beast was at large grinning horribly-cruelly. What was Her Fate ?

Plot Summary

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...

Run Time

61 min

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Genre

Crime, Horror, Mystery

Language

English, Danish, German

Keyword

Medical Student, Ape, Police, Paris, Laboratory

Movie Rating

Sound Mix

Mono

Colour

Black and White

Film Type

Feature

Film Class

Detective Film

Themes

Mad Scientists

Tones

Atmospheric, Stylized, Creepy, Eerie, Menacing

Mood

Spellbinders

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1, 2, 3

Wikipedia Text

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) is a Universal Pictures pre-Code horror film loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Bela Lugosi, one year after his legendary performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic scientist who abducts women (one a prostitute played by Arlene Francis) and injects them with fresh blood from his vicious caged ape. The atmospheric cinematography by Karl Freund has been singled out by critics as superb, along with Robert Florey's direction. Thanks to Freund and Florey, the film has the look and feel of German expressionist films of the 1920s. However, some strongly violent scenes apparently prompted Universal executives to cut the film back to 61 minutes from what was originally an 80-minute running time.

Release Date

21 February 1932

Country

USA

Country Of Origin

USA