A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Bela Lugosi
as Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner
John Archer
as Richard Dennison
Wanda McKay
as Judy Malvern
Tom Neal
as Frankie Mills
Vince Barnett
as Charley
Anna Hope
as Mrs. Brenner
John Berkes
as Fingers Dolan
J. Farrell MacDonald
as Capt. Mitchell
Dave O'Brien
as Det. Pete Crawford
Lucille Vance
as Mrs. Malvern
Lew Kelly
as Doc Brooks
Wheeler Oakman
as "Trigger" Stratton
