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White Zombie (1932) 6.4
A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. Director:Victor Halperin |
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Cast
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Madge Bellamy | ... |
Madeline Short Parker
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Dr. Bruner
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Charles Beaumont
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Neil Parker
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George Burr Macannan | ... |
Von Gelder - Zombie
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Frederick Peters | ... |
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Annette Stone | ... |
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John Printz | ... |
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Dan Crimmins | ... |
Pierre - Witch Doctor
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Claude Morgan | ... |
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John Fergusson | ... |
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil is convinced by a local priest that Madeleine may still be alive and he seeks her out. Written by Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 August 1932 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A fehér zombi See more »Filming Locations:
RKO-Pathé Studios - 9336 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$50,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
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Mono (RCA Photophone Noiseless Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Coach Driver: They are not men, madame. They are dead bodies!
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(uncredited)
Music by Franz Liszt
Played on piano by Madge Bellamy
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The film was thought lost until its rediscovery in the 1960s. A court battle was fought between film distributor Frank Storace and the estate of Stanley Krellberg, the copyright owner of the film. Storace had wished to produce a restored version of the film but the estate refused him access to original footage in their possession. Storace gave up the court battle and did not win his access to his original footage. See more »Goofs
When Parker drunkenly staggers to Madeleine's crypt through the graveyard, he grabs a tombstone in passing. The tombstone wiggles. See more »Quotes
Madeline: Driver, who were those men we saw?Coach Driver: They are not men, madame. They are dead bodies!
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Crazy Credits
A huge percentage of this film's credited crew have their names simply listed under the heading "Art and Technical" with no further identification of job. See more »Soundtracks
"Liebestraum"(uncredited)
Music by Franz Liszt
Played on piano by Madge Bellamy
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I'm not entirely sure why this film is considered a horror classic. But having seen many other horror films from the 1930s, I would have to agree it's definitely one of the better ones.
The plot: a Frenchman in Haiti makes a deal with Bela Lugosi to turn a beautiful young woman (Madge Bellamy, the finest 1930s woman by far) into a zombie. But then he becomes disillusioned and Bela Lugosi strikes back at the Frenchman. Oh ,and there are other zombies, an absent-minded professor and a really annoying screeching vulture.
This film has some of the strangest transitions between scenes. I forget the word for when the screen slides over, but it does it a number of times in short succession in some strange shapes (like curtains, or diagonally). And there is a weird fascination with showing Bela Lugosi' eyes and his hand gestures repeatedly. The eyes reveal what seems to me some of the fakest eyebrows ever glued to a forehead.
But if you like Lugosi or classic horror, or Madge Bellamy... yeah, you should see this film. So much crap is pumped out of theaters and studios these days in the horror genre, why not see the roots that inspired all this before it went bad?