The Corpse Vanishes
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The Corpse Vanishes
8 May 1942
1942Horror1h 2m
A scientist seeks to keep his wife young, leading to the theft of virgin brides and a desperate search for the missing women
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Genres Horror, Sci-fi
Decade 1940s
This Movie is Macabre, Sinister, Gothic, Eerie, Suspenseful & Disturbing
About The Corpse Vanishes A 1942 horror-sci-fi film by Wallace Fox and Arthur Hammond, notable for its chilling premise involving a scientist who harvests gland fluid from virgin brides to preserve his wife's youth
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Audio English (United States)
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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
