The Corpse Vanishes
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8 May 1942
Description
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
Classification
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Cast
- Bela Lugosi Dr. Lorenz, a mad scientist trying to preserve his wife’s youth and beauty by injecting her with fluids removed from the bodies of young virginal brides
- Luana Walters Patricia Hunter, a newspaper reporter investigating the disappearances of the brides
- Tris Coffin Dr. Foster, a small town physician who aids Hunter during her investigations and eventually marries her
- Elizabeth Russell (actress) Dr. Lorenz’s aged wife
- Minerva Urecal Fagah, a crone and Dr. Lorenz’s servant
- Angelo Rossitto Toby, Fagah’s son and a dwarf
- Frank Moran Angel, Fagah’s son and a brutish half-wit
- George Eldredge Mike, Lorenz’s henchman and the driver of his getaway car
- Joan Barclay Alice Wentworth, a bride who becomes Lorenz’s victim
- Gwen Kenyon Peggy, a nightclub cigarette girl who poses as a bride in Hunter’s scheme to trap Lorenz
- Kenneth Harlan Keenan, a newspaper editor and Hunter’s boss
- Vince Barnett Sandy, a newspaper photographer and Hunter’s colleague
- Tristram Coffin Dr. Foster
- Elizabeth Russell Countess Lorenz
Director
- Wallace Fox
- Arthur Hammond
Screenwriter
- Harvey Gates
- Sam Robins
- Gerald Schnitzer
Director of Photography
- Arthur Reed
Composer
- Johnny Lange
- Charles Dunworth
- Lew Porter
- Glen Glenn
Producer
- Sam Katzman
- Jack Dietz
- Barney A. Sarecky
- Ed W. Rote




