Bowery at Midnight
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Movie Reviews of Bowery at Midnight
Movie Review: Good Bela / Baaaad Bela...
Summary: 4 Stars
Bela is excellent as both the "good" professor Brenner, and the cold, heartless, e-vil Kenneth Wagner, owner / operator of the Friendly Mission. No one knows that Wagner is also a sadistic criminal mastermind! He's been using the mission as a front for his underworld enterprises, committing heists and killing off henchmen as fast as he can replace 'em! His office is loaded w/ secret passages and he's got a graveyard in the sub-basement full of his ex-partners in crime! There's even a sub-sub-basement where Wagner's mad doctor pal keeps his unnatural experiments alive! I love this movie! Bela plays his good / bad roles w/ ease and dexterity, never seeming overly angelic nor demonic. Of course, I prefer his wicked persona! BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT would make a perfect double bill w/ HUMAN MONSTER, another of Bela's dual role projects...Movie Review: Bela's Dual Life
Summary: 3 Stars
Bela Lugosi is a distinguished professor but he also leads a dual life where he runs a mission for the Bowery homeless (reminds me of his Dark Eyes of London - 1939). His victims are disposed of in the basement, which is, laid out as a cemetery and beneath the graves lay a sub chamber where zombie like people are kept and in the end, that is where Bela tries to hide from the law. Not a good choice!The quality of the DVD is fair.
Movie Review: DVD Tranfer from a less than spectacular source print
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the first Alpha Video DVD I have purchased and I must say, "you get what you pay for." Yes, this DVD is cheap, but it isn't entirely worthless. The source print for the DVD is from an Astor Pictures rerelease. There are several scratches, but the picture is pretty clear. The sound is not perfect, but typical of the Monogram pictures of the period. There are some annoying splices that break some of the dialogue.The film itself is probably in the middle of the pack of Lugosi's Monogram programmers. Not the best, but certainly far superior to his two East Side Kids films. Lugosi plays a man leading a double life, one a college professor and the other as a ruthless gangster. Not really a true horror picture other than the drug addicted doctor that works for Lugosi.
Just a couple of more comments about Alpha Video. There are no extras on this DVD and there are only 4 chapters (and they don't even cover the entire film!). Also amusing is that the website listed on the back doesn't even take you to the Alpha Video website. The one positive is that the artwork on the DVD is very nice and will make collectors take notice.