Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932  NR  HORROR  1h 1min
CAST— Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Waycoff (Ames), Bert Roach, Noble Johnson, Brandon Hurst, Arlene Francis
MUSIC— Heinz Roemheld  DIRECTOR— Robert Florey  BASED ON— The Murders in the Rue Morgue (story), by Edgar Allan Poe

     Positively silly telling of the Poe classic, as told in typical Universal horror fashion. Bela Lugosi, a sideshow performer with ape partner in tow, kidnaps young women so that he can perform heinous experiments on them. In trying to mate the ape Lugosi injects ape blood into the unwilling girls, which kills them. Leon Ames is a young medical student whose girlfriend is the next target. As Ames collects blood samples from the victims he edges closer to the ultimate revelation. Absurd.
OUR RATING— *
ORIGINAL— The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1914)
REMADE AS— The Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1953), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986)