The Corpse Vanishes

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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.

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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