Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
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Cast & Crew.
Bela Lugosi
Dr. Mirakle
Sidney Fox
Mlle. Camille L'Espanaye
Leon Ames
Pierre Dupin
Bert Roach
Paul
Betty Ross Clarke
Mme. L'Espanaye
Brandon Hurst
Prefect of Police
D'Arcy Corrigan
Morgue Keeper
Noble Johnson
Janos The Black One
John Huston
Writer
Arlene Francis
Woman of the Streets
Ted Billings
Sideshow Spectator
Herman Bing
Franz Odenheimer (uncredited)
Ethel M. Kelly
Writer
Joe Bonomo
Gorilla (uncredited) / Stunt Double
Robert Florey
Director
Agostino Borgato
Alberto Montani (uncredited)
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer
Iron Eyes Cody
Indian at Sideshow (uncredited)
Christian J. Frank
Gendarme Using Snuff (uncredited)
Tom Reed
Writer
Dale Van Every
Writer
Charles Gemora
Erik, the Gorilla (uncredited)
Harrison Greene
Sideshow Barker (uncredited)
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer
Karl Freund
Cinematographer
Charlotte Henry
Blonde Girl in Sideshow Audience (uncredited)
Harry Holman
Victor Albert Adolph Jules Hugo Louis Dupont (uncredited)
Milton Carruth
Editor
Edna Marion
Mignette (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
The Dane (uncredited)
Charles Millsfield
Bearded Man at Sideshow (uncredited)
Monte Montague
Workman / Gendarme (uncredited)
John T. Murray
Gendarme (uncredited)
Tempe Pigott
Crone (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Tenant (uncredited)
Michael Visaroff
Mirakle's Sideshow Barker (uncredited)
Polly Ann Young
Girl (uncredited)
E.M. Asher
Associate Producer
Charles D. Hall
Art Direction
C. Roy Hunter
Recording Supervision
Maurice Pivar
Supervising Editor
Carl Laemmle
Presenter
Jack Pierce
Makeup Artist
Heinz Roemheld
Music
Richard Schayer
Scenario Writer
John P. Fulton
Special Effects
Charles S. Gould
Assistant Director
Scott R. Beal
Assistant Director
Joseph A. McDonough
Assistant Director
Gilbert Kurland
Music Supervisor
Herman Rosse
Set Designer
Howard Salemson
Technical Advisor
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Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 American horror film directed by Robert Florey, based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The plot is about Doctor Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), a carnival sideshow entertainer and scientist who kidnaps Parisian women to mix their blood with that of his gorilla, Erik. As his experiments fail because of the quality of his victims' blood, Mirakle meets with Camille L'Espanye (Sidney Fox), and has her kidnapped and her mother murdered, leading to suspicion falling on Camille's fiance, Pierre Dupin (Leon Waycoff), a medical student who has already become interested in the earlier murders.
Florey had suggested adapting Poe's story as early as March 1930 but he was only attached after being taken off Frankenstein (1931). Only a few elements of Poe's story remain in the script by Tom Reed and Dale Van Every; much of the story was changed to accommodate a role for Lugosi. Florey left the project but returned, arguing with Universal about elements such as period setting. After production wrapped on November 13, 1931, it was brought back into production for five days of reshoots and reordering of scenes in the final edit.
The film was first shown publicly in New York on February 10, 1932, and its wide release was censored throughout North America. The authors of Universal Horrors described initial reviews of the film as "harsh" while later reviews from historians and home video reviewers were lukewarm. The film led to other Poe stories being adapted by Universal Pictures; it was also the first to have Lugosi in a role of either a mad scientist or a doctor, roles he would reprise later in his career from The Black Cat (1934) to Bride of the Monster (1955).