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15 June 1934 (USA)
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Love battling against the sorcery of the jungle!
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A young girl who lives on a tropical island loses her parents to a voodoo sacrifice, but although she manages to escape the island...
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Voodoo
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Erotic Dance
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BLACK MOON (Roy William Neill, 1934) ***
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Cast
(in credits order) | Jack Holt | ... | Stephen Lane |
 | Fay Wray | ... | Gail Hamilton |
 | Dorothy Burgess | ... | Juanita Perez Lane |
| Cora Sue Collins | ... | Nancy Lane |
| Arnold Korff | ... | Dr. Raymond Perez |
| Clarence Muse | ... | 'Lunch' McClaren |
| Eleanor Wesselhoeft | ... | Anna, the nursemaid |
| Madame Sul-Te-Wan | ... | Ruva |
| Laurence Criner | ... | Kala, the priest |
| Lumsden Hare | ... | John Macklin |
| Henry Kolker | ... | The Psychiatrist |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Grace Chapman | ... | Welfare Worker (uncredited) |
| Ruby Dandridge | ... | Black House Servant (uncredited) |
| William R. Dunn | ... | Langa (uncredited) |
| Edna Franklin | ... | Girl Sacrificed by Mother (uncredited) |
| Robert Frazier | ... | Black House Servant (uncredited) |
| Theresa Harris | ... | Sacrificed Girl (uncredited) |
| Anna Lee Johnson | ... | Black House Servant (uncredited) |
| Pierre Lutere | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Billy McClain | ... | Black House Servant (uncredited) |
| Charles R. Moore | ... | Black House Servant (uncredited) |
| Ada Penn | ... | Black House Servant (uncredited) |
| Lillian Smith | ... | Nurse (uncredited) |
| Fred Walton | ... | Butler (uncredited) |
| Lillian West | ... | Maid (uncredited) |
| Geneva Williams | ... | Black House Servant (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Roy William Neill | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Clements Ripley | story | |
| Wells Root | screenplay | |
Produced by | |||
| Harry Cohn | .... | producer (uncredited) | |
| Everett Riskin | .... | associate producer (uncredited) | |
Original Music by | |||
| Louis Silvers | (uncredited) | ||
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| Joseph H. August | (as Joseph August) | ||
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| Richard Cahoon | |||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Robert Margolis | .... | assistant director (uncredited) | |
Art Department | |||
| Stanley Dunn | .... | property master (uncredited) | |
Sound Department | |||
| Edward Bernds | .... | sound engineer (uncredited) | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Jack Anderson | .... | assistant camera (uncredited) | |
| Eddie Blaisdell | .... | grip (uncredited) | |
| Marcel Grand | .... | assistant camera (uncredited) | |
| Irving Lippman | .... | still photographer (uncredited) | |
Other crew | |||
| Kay Konrad | .... | stand-in (uncredited) | |
| William Lally | .... | stand-in (uncredited) | |
| Lee McNally | .... | double (uncredited) | |
| Max Scheck | .... | choreographer (uncredited) | |
| Don Taylor | .... | technical advisor (uncredited) | |
| Edna Tichenor | .... | stand-in: Dorothy Burgess (uncredited) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Columbia Pictures (1934) (USA) (theatrical)
- Columbia Pictures Corporation (1934) (UK) (theatrical)
- Warner Home Video (2011) (USA) (DVD) (DVD-R)
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68 min
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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The film was refused a UK cinema certificate in 1934.See more »
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Referenced in I Walked with a Zombie (1943)See more »
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Until only a few months ago, I had never even heard of this one – despite the involvement of director Roy William Neill (THE BLACK ROOM [1935]) and the era's foremost "Scream Queen" Fay Wray! Interestingly, it supplies the logical bridge between the distinctive Gothic and psychological backdrops of the two most notable early voodoo-related films – namely WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943). The atmosphere here is similarly thick, without the need to resort to an actual prowling or possessed creature: indeed, having the lady concerned – very well played by Dorothy Burgess – actively believe in the power of voodoo (that is, until she sees the error of her ways on being asked to perform the ultimate sacrifice!), provides the biggest chill in this case! Incidentally, the two central female characters (with Wray being, naturally, the wide-eyed heroine) not only create the requisite contrast but make up for the rather uninteresting male lead – burly Jack Holt! Perhaps not a classic of the genre, then, but a perfect example of "a film that has fallen through the cracks"; in fact, the copy I acquired is a hazy VHS-sourced recording of an old TCM screening.