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The Corpse Vanishes

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Dr. George Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) and his wife (Elizabeth Russell) are getting on in years, but they've thought of a way to thwart aging. Lorenz abducts a nubile bride-to-be, Alice (Joan Barclay), and plans to extract her valuable bodily fluids to inject into his wife, restoring her health and vitality. Journalist Patricia Hunter (Luana Walters) is investigating the case of the missing bride, but, when the trail leads her to Lorenz, she doesn't realize she's in danger of becoming his next victim.

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Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) 03/06/2014
4/5
This is poverty row gold. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 04/30/2006
B-
A creaky Povery Row mad scientist film from yesteryear that stars a past his prime Bela Lugosi. Go to Full Review
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bill t @Spuzz 06/06/2020 Rather nasty piece of business featuring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist (with yes, a Renfield-like assistant and his mother, a dwarf and yes, the scientistÂs wife (sounds like a Greenaway movie actually lol). Lugosi gives his wife injections from dead brides (why them? Who knows?) so that his wife can leep looking beautiful. He gets the brides after doing a pretty clever trick with some orchids that makes the brides collapse at the altar. After another bride bites the dust, a newspaper reporter just HAPPENS to be around for the scoop, and decides to snoop around for a story. She gets all sorts of clues about the orchids and Lugosi. Heaven knows where the police were. Soon sheÂs off to BelaÂs lair, when she meets a sort of strange looking doctor who may or may not be eeeevil. It all cumulates in a totally farfetched plan to have a fake wedding to capture the mad scientist, but it seems that the scientist has x-ray vision, as he foils her plans, Oh no! What will happen? I actually liked this movie as a bit of a guilty pleasure. Lugosi is great here, his hangers-on are all very very strange, the story is actually quite nasty in some places which makes it all most watchable. A fun little view. See more 02/23/2020 I totally dug it! Lugosi rocks as the evil scientist, and the cast of evil flunkies who help him kidnap women- a demented giant, a cynical dwarf, and an old Hag- are cinema classics! Top it off with a tough girl reporter on the case..and the sinister plot takes off. See more 10/26/2019 Love watching these old movies. See more 11/20/2017 One of my favorite Bela films. It's pure gold! See more 01/25/2017 I like creaky old thrillers and the mysteriously magnetic Elizabeth Russell but this isn't very good, even by my standards. See more 10/23/2016 Weak horror film has Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist who takes the blood of virgin brides to give his own wife eternal youth. I did like the set up for this film and it does feature one of the dwarves from Tod Browning's "Freaks" but overall this film is cheaply made, badly acted, and hardly worth watching unless your a Lugosi fan (which I am). See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Dr. George Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) and his wife (Elizabeth Russell) are getting on in years, but they've thought of a way to thwart aging. Lorenz abducts a nubile bride-to-be, Alice (Joan Barclay), and plans to extract her valuable bodily fluids to inject into his wife, restoring her health and vitality. Journalist Patricia Hunter (Luana Walters) is investigating the case of the missing bride, but, when the trail leads her to Lorenz, she doesn't realize she's in danger of becoming his next victim.
Director
Wallace Fox
Producer
Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz
Screenwriter
Sam Robins
Distributor
Monogram Pictures Corporation
Production Co
Monogram
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 8, 1942, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 11, 2016
Runtime
1h 4m
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