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
Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner
John Archer
Richard Dennison
Wanda McKay
Judy Malvern
Tom Neal
Frankie Mills
Vince Barnett
Charley
Anna Hope
Mrs. Brenner
John Berkes
Fingers Dolan
J. Farrell MacDonald
Capt. Mitchell
Dave O'Brien
Det. Pete Crawford
Lucille Vance
Mrs. Malvern
Lew Kelly
Doc Brooks
Wheeler Oakman
"Trigger" Stratton
Ray Miller
The Big Tramp
George Eldredge
Det. Thompson (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Police Chief Martin (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Knocked-out Motorist (uncredited)
Bernard Gorcey
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Willy Castello
Jeweler (uncredited)
Bob Reeves
Henchman (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
Walter McGrail
Coroner (uncredited)
Jack Kenney
Usher (uncredited)
Ralph Littlefield
Cards-player Tramp (uncredited)
Pat Costello
Tramp questioned by Richard (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
Tramp playing checkers at 'Friendly Mission' (uncredited)
Theodore Lorch
Tramp Playing Checkers at Friendly Mission (uncredited)