The Walking Dead (1936 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Walking Dead


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director = Michael Curtiz
producer = Louis F. Edelman
writer = Robert Adams
Lillie Hayward
Peter Milne
Joseph Fields
Ewart Adamson
starring = Boris Karloff
Edmund Gwenn
Marguerite Churchill
music = Bernhard Kaun
cinematography = Hal Mohr
editing = Thomas Pratt
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
released = flagicon|US March 1, 1936 (New York City premiere)
March 14 (wide)
flagicon|Denmark October 15
runtime = 66 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
budget = $217,000 (estimate)
amg_id = 1:115857
imdb_id = 0028478

"The Walking Dead" is a 1936 black-and-white horror film starring Boris Karloff as a wrongly executed man who is returned to life by a mad doctor (Edmund Gwenn).The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, director of "Casablanca", and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. "The Walking Dead" inspired the low-budget remake "The Man They Could Not Hang" (1939), released by Columbia Pictures and starring Karloff as both the mad doctor and the reanimated corpse in one role.

Plot

John Elman (Karloff) has been framed for murder by a gang of racketeers. He is unfairly tried and despite the fact that his innocence has been proven, he is sent to the electric chair and executed. But Dr. Evan Beaumont (Gwenn) retrieves his dead body and revives it, as part of his experiments to reanimate a dead body.

Cast

* Boris Karloff - John Ellman
* Ricardo Cortez - Mr. Nolan
* Edmund Gwenn - Dr. Evan Beaumont
* Marguerite Churchill - Nancy
* Warren Hull - Jimmy
* Barton MacLane - Loder
* Henry O'Neill - District Attorney Werner
* Joe King - Judge Roger Shaw (as Joseph King)
* Addison Richards - Prison Warden
* Paul Harvey - Blackstone
* Robert Strange - Merritt
* Joe Sawyer - 'Trigger' Smith (as Joseph Sawyer)
* Eddie Acuff - Betcha
* Kenneth Harlan - Stephen Martin
* Miki Morita - Sako, Loder's Butler

ee also

* Boris Karloff filmography

External links

*imdb title|id=0028478|title=The Walking Dead