Bowery at Midnight (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. social worker, escaped convict, murder, back from the dead, police detective, police raid, criminologist, hidden room, poverty row, soup kitchen, inner city life, wanted killer, graves in cellar
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