Classic terror movie with a powerful cast that will guarantee entertainment . Young women in Paris are being killed in Paris . Few clues were left behind . The killer could not have fled via the windows as they were nailed shut . Nor was the killer observed leaving by neighbors . Pierre Dupin (Leon Ames) thinks he has the solution to the killings . Dupin begins to investigate the case on his own, and puts together quite an interesting scenario in solving the crime . He and his girlfriend , Camille L'Espanaye (Sidney Fox) , had recently visited a carnival sideshow where Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi) showed off his giant ape . Mirakle has been taking women off the street to conduct experiments he hopes will demonstrate that human beings evolved from gorillas . As he attempts to prove his rather unusual theory of evolution : experiments involve mixing the blood of the women with that of an ape . Meanwhile , the mysterious and grisly crimes of women go on and leave police investigators puzzled . It seems the only person with the skills to solve the crime is Dupin, but things go wrong . Innocent Beauty - this was her wedding eve. On the wall a shadow . . the beast was at large grinning horribly-cruelly . What was Her Fate ? Beautiful girl- giant ape... both under the mysterious power of the mad Dr. Mirackle!
Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic story of the horrors of Paris with good cast and nice atmosphere in this vintage eerie film in which young women in Paris are being mysteriously killed . This is a pedestrian but highly agreeable account of a mad scientific scouring Paris for young female victims . There's enough fascination and enjoyable style in some scenes as well as spectacular scenes set in Paris roofs with efficient special effects . The perverse and sordid sexual implications are rarely made explicit , but there are a couple of genuinely unpleasant frames . Here Bela Lugosi gives one of his best interpretations . His name had become such as asset that studios would give him prominent billing even when he was playing such supporting roles as butlers , as he did in Columbia's Night of Terror (1933), Fox's The gorilla (1939), Universal's Night Monster (1942) and Paramount's One Body Too Many (1944) and , eventually , took his most successful role : Dracula (1931) . He appeared with Boris Karloff in eight films: Satanas (1934) , The raven (1935), The invisible ray (1936), Frankenstein's son (1939), You'll Find Out (1940) , Black Friday (1940) Body Snatcher (1945) and Gift of Gab (1934) . Co-starred by Leon Ames as Dupin , he subsequently to become himself an illustrious secondary playing a lot of characters throughout a long career . This role of Pierre Dupin, played by Leon Ames, reappeared in another Poe story done by Universal, "Mystery of Marie Roget" (1942) . It is stylistically and beautifully photographed by prestigious Karl Freund who directed another classy movie : ¨The Mummy¨. The motion picture was well directed by Robert Florey , though the whole thing owes more to ¨The Cabinet of Dr Caligari¨ by Robert Wiene than to Poe .
There are other version about this known story : ¨Murders in the Rue Morgue 1971¨ by Gordon Hessler with Jason Robards , Herbert Lom , Christine Kaufmann , Michael Dunn , Adolfo Celi , Maria Perschy . ¨The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1986¨ by Jeannot Szwarc with George C. Scott , Rebecca De Mornay , Ian McShane , Neil Dickson , Val Kilmer.
Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic story of the horrors of Paris with good cast and nice atmosphere in this vintage eerie film in which young women in Paris are being mysteriously killed . This is a pedestrian but highly agreeable account of a mad scientific scouring Paris for young female victims . There's enough fascination and enjoyable style in some scenes as well as spectacular scenes set in Paris roofs with efficient special effects . The perverse and sordid sexual implications are rarely made explicit , but there are a couple of genuinely unpleasant frames . Here Bela Lugosi gives one of his best interpretations . His name had become such as asset that studios would give him prominent billing even when he was playing such supporting roles as butlers , as he did in Columbia's Night of Terror (1933), Fox's The gorilla (1939), Universal's Night Monster (1942) and Paramount's One Body Too Many (1944) and , eventually , took his most successful role : Dracula (1931) . He appeared with Boris Karloff in eight films: Satanas (1934) , The raven (1935), The invisible ray (1936), Frankenstein's son (1939), You'll Find Out (1940) , Black Friday (1940) Body Snatcher (1945) and Gift of Gab (1934) . Co-starred by Leon Ames as Dupin , he subsequently to become himself an illustrious secondary playing a lot of characters throughout a long career . This role of Pierre Dupin, played by Leon Ames, reappeared in another Poe story done by Universal, "Mystery of Marie Roget" (1942) . It is stylistically and beautifully photographed by prestigious Karl Freund who directed another classy movie : ¨The Mummy¨. The motion picture was well directed by Robert Florey , though the whole thing owes more to ¨The Cabinet of Dr Caligari¨ by Robert Wiene than to Poe .
There are other version about this known story : ¨Murders in the Rue Morgue 1971¨ by Gordon Hessler with Jason Robards , Herbert Lom , Christine Kaufmann , Michael Dunn , Adolfo Celi , Maria Perschy . ¨The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1986¨ by Jeannot Szwarc with George C. Scott , Rebecca De Mornay , Ian McShane , Neil Dickson , Val Kilmer.