Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932 film)

Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 American PreCode horror film, very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poes short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Bela Lugosi, one year after his performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic scientist who abducts women and injects them with blood from his illtempered caged ape. Karl Freunds cinematography and Robert Floreys direction have been praised by critics and characterized as expressionistic by Leonard Maltin. Despite the film being preCode, violent sequences prompted Universal to cut its running time from 80 minutes to 61 minutes.

In Paris in 1845, a mad scientist, Dr. Mirakle Bela Lugosi, abducts young virgin women and injects them with ape blood, in order to create a mate for his talking sideshow ape Erik Charles Gemora, the gorilla performer.Young Pierre Dupin, a young nave medical student and detective Leon Ames credited as Leon Waycoff in the role of Poes standard detective icon, C. Auguste Dupin, his fiance Camille LEspanaye Sidney Fox, in the role of an original character in the short story, and their friends Paul Bert Roach and his girl Mignette silent film actress Edna Marion, in her last film role visit carnival sideshows, including Mirakles sideshow, where he exhibits Erik. Both master and servant are enchanted by Camille, whom Mirakle plans to become Eriks mate. He invites her to come and take a closer look at Erik, who grabs Camilles bonnet. Dupin tries to get it back, when Erik tries to strangle him. Mirakle backs him off and offers Camille to replace the bonnet. But Camille is reluctant and suspicious to give the doctor her address, so, when they leave, Mirakle orders his servant Janos Noble Johnson to follow her. ........

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