This is far more of a crime thriller ; the horror content is very small and seems tacked on to expand the potential audience.
Bela Lugosi plays Professor Brenner , an expert in psychology but also a criminal mastermind. Without any attempt at disguise he calls himself Carl Lenz and runs a soup kitchen the Bowery, where he recruits criminal henchmen to carry out his raids who are then killed once they've served their purpose. What he doesn't know is that his drunken doctor / accomplice is ( somehow ) reanimating them and keeping them in the cellar.
It's rubbish to be honest with a completely inexplicable ending.
Wanda McKay ( as Judy Malvern )
Sex : She's about to do it with her beau at the end of the picture without explanation of how he's been re-converted from a zombie.
Death : Survives
Wanda ( originally Dorothy Quackenbush ) was a former model ( Miss American Aviation in 1938 ) who was building her career after many uncredited appearances in the late thirties. She worked in TV in the fifties. Later in life she was married to Hoagy Carmichael. She died of cancer in 1996 aged 80.
Anna Hope ( as Mrs Brenner )
Sex : No
Death : Killed ( probably by strangulation ) by her husband to prevent her giving evidence against him
Anna made few films and I can't tell you anything more about her.
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