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Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Name: Bowery at Midnight
Genre: Horror
Released: 1942
Duration: 1 h 1 min
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, J. Farrell MacDonald, John Archer, Tom Neal

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Bowery at Midnight (1942) is a 62-minute horror film that airs free on Starlite TV's Graveyard Shift (CH 4) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Wallace Fox.

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About Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Bowery at Midnight is a 1942 American Monogram Pictures horror film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Bela Lugosi and John Archer. The film was re-released by Astor Pictures in 1949.

Lugosi plays a psychology professor by day who, secretly and under an assumed name, runs a Bowery soup kitchen by night called the Bowery Friendly Mission. Lugosi's character uses his soup kitchen as a means to recruit members of a criminal gang, of which he is also secretly the head. Throughout the film, one of Lugosi's henchmen, a doctor who seems to be an alcoholic drug addict, alludes to having plans for the corpses of henchmen Lugosi has had killed. Then, at the end of the film, these corpses are revealed to have been restored to life by the doctor.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Bowery at Midnight (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Wallace Fox
Cast includes: Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, J. Farrell MacDonald, John Archer, Tom Neal, Vince Barnett, Wheeler Vivian Oakman
Country: United States

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Graveyard Shift - CH 4, Horror TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources).
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Source: Internet Archive

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