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6.1/10 • 133

1932-01-271h 1m

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In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.

Directors
Robert Florey
Writters
Ethel M. Kelly
Editors
Ethel M. Kelly, Milton Carruth

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  1. Sidney Fox

    Sidney Fox

    Mlle. Camille L'Espanaye

  2. Bela Lugosi

    Bela Lugosi

    Dr. Mirakle

  3. Leon Ames

    Leon Ames

    Pierre Dupin

  4. Bert Roach

    Bert Roach

    Paul

  5. Betty Ross Clarke

    Betty Ross Clarke

    Mme. L'Espanaye

  6. Brandon Hurst

    Brandon Hurst

    Prefect of Police

  7. D'Arcy Corrigan

    D'Arcy Corrigan

    Morgue Keeper

  8. Noble Johnson

    Noble Johnson

    Janos The Black One

  9. Arlene Francis

    Arlene Francis

    Woman of the Streets

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CinemaSerf

Dec 28, 2024

7/10

Bela Lugosi is at his most rigid best in this eerily spooky adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story. It's 1800s Paris and amidst the fog and the cobblestones streets, young women are being kidnapped and disappearing without trace. What's this to do with "Mirakle" (Lugosi)? Well we quite quickly discover that he is working on a Darwin-esque plan to prove the relationship between human beings and apes. To prove his theories, he is using the blood from his more hirsute helpers to contaminate his guinea pigs, but as yet to no avail. When he alights on the young "Camille" (Sidney Fox) her boyfriend, medical student "Dupin" (Leon Ames) starts to piece things together but how on earth is he going to convince the gendarmerie? I really quite enjoyed this hour of megalomanic science, peppered with some acceptable co-starring and a reasonably tight script as the tension of the adventure is managed quite effectively by Robert Florey towards a denouement that has a soupçon more jeopardy than you might expect. Of course, the role given to Fox is little better than that of one tied to a rail track, but she still manages to exude just enough of a sense of panic to keep things interesting and it's a decent example of an early, at times even scary, talkie.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Keywords
paris, francecircusblack and whiteapepre-codegenetic engineeringmurder mystery19th centuryracist stereotypenative