The Walking Dead (1936 film)

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The Walking Dead
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Produced by	Louis F. Edelman
Written by	Robert Adams Lillie Hayward Peter Milne Joseph Fields Ewart Adamson
Starring	Boris Karloff Edmund Gwenn Marguerite Churchill
Music by	Bernhard Kaun
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Editing by	Thomas Pratt
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	March 1, 1936 (New York City premiere) March 14 (wide) October 15
Running time	66 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
Budget	$217,000 (estimate)
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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.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Boris Karloff filmography

[edit] External links

• The Walking Dead at the Internet Movie Database

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