The Corpse Vanishes

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Category: Sci-Fi
All Genres: Sci-Fi, Horror
Release Year: 1942
Country: USA
Runtime: 64
Rating: 7.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Wallace Fox
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Horror to make your hair stand on end!

Keeper of the Grotto of Torture!

Writing by: Harvey Gates - writer
Sam Robins - story
Gerald Schnitzer - story

Produced by: Jack Dietz - producer
Sam Katzman - producer
Barney A. Sarecky - associate producer

Cast: Bela Lugosi - Dr. Lorenz
Luana Walters - Patricia Hunter, Reporter
Tristram Coffin - Dr. Foster
Elizabeth Russell - Countess Lorenz
Minerva Urecal - Fagah
Angelo Rossitto - Toby (as Angelo)
Joan Barclay - Alice Wentworth
Kenneth Harlan - Keenan
Gwen Kenyon - Peggy Woods
Vince Barnett - Sandy, Photographer
Frank Moran - Angel

Music: David Whitaker
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Plot Outline: A scientist, aided by an old hag & her two sons - a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron, kills virgin brides, steals their bodies, & extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.
Plot: Dr. Lorenz, a mad scientist, wants to keep his elderly wife young. He does this by kidnapping young females and extracting fluid from them. He then injects this fluid into his wife. What a diabolical guy!

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Most of the credits at the end of the movie are fake. They contain TV characters.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When getting ready for bed, Pat unbuttons her jacket but in the next shot, the jacket is buttoned again and stays buttoned for the rest of the scene.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Husband and wife Ralph Bates and Virginia Wetherell first met as they prepared to shoot the scene in which Bates as Dr. Jekyll kills the prostitute played by Wetherell.
Caroline Munro was offered the part of Sister Hyde but refused because it required some nudity.
The BBFC requested cuts to remove the inter-cutting of a murder and a rabbit gutting, and to edit a bedroom murder and the stabbing of Professor Robertson. The bedroom murder was shortened though Hammer re-edited the stabbing of the doctor to comprise flash shots of earlier killings. Despite initial BBFC objections the film was then passed, and all later releases feature this same edited print.