Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) - film review

Crime / Horror / Mystery

Summary

When several women are savagely murdered in a working class district of Paris, the police suspect they may be the victims of a psychology professor, Paul Dupin. In truth, the murderer is a psychotic scientist, Dr Marais, who has trained a gorilla to kill anyone who has wronged him, in particular women who decline to offer him their favours...

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Credits

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Script: Harold Medford, Edgar Allan Poe, James R. Webb
Photo: J. Peverell Marley
Music: David Buttolph
Cast: Karl Malden (Dr. Marais), Claude Dauphin (Insp. Bonnard), Patricia Medina (Jeanette), Steve Forrest (Prof. Paul Dupin), Allyn Ann McLerie (Yvonne), Anthony Caruso (Jacques the One-Eyed), Dolores Dorn (Camille), Merv Griffin (Georges Brevert), Paul Richards (Rene the Knife-thrower), Rolfe Sedan (LeBon), Erin O’Brien-Moore (Wardrobe woman), The Flying Zacchinis (Themselves), Rico Alaniz (Gendarme), Richard Avonde (Vendor), Baynes Barron (Circus manager)
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 83 min

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