The Dead That Walk
(1957)
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The Dead That Walk
(1957)
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Gregg Palmer | ... |
Jeff Clark
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Mona Harrison
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Autumn Russell | ... |
Jan Peters
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Joel Ashley | ... |
George Harrison
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Morris Ankrum | ... |
Dr. Jonathan Eggert
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Marjorie Eaton | ... |
Grandmother Peters
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Gene Roth | ... |
Sam, the chauffeur
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Leonard P. Geer | ... |
Johnny - a Crewman
(as Leonard Geer)
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Karl 'Killer' Davis | ... |
First Zombie - in Roadway
(as Karl Davis)
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William Baskin | ... |
Zombie
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Ray Corrigan | ... |
Sailor
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Mel Curtis | ... |
Johnson - Crewman in Launch
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Frank Hagney | ... |
Capt. Jeremy Peters - a Zombie
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Zombiefied sailors guard the treasure of a ship they went down with 60 years earlier. A group of sailors scoff at the legend, and decide to retrieve the diamonds from the ocean floor only to discover the hard way that there is some truth to legends. Written by Humberto Amador
Zombies are guarding a sunken ship full of treasures in a lagoon on the outskirts of a sleepy, nearly-deserted Southern town. Cardboard screamer shenanigans; sure, some of it is fun, and the sequence where the zombies walk out of the water is skillfully done, but Allison Hayes (as the sexy bad girl) still can't act! It's reassuring to see her cast as yet another femme fatale, but her line readings are robotic--she's zombie-fied. The underwater sequences are a joke, yet the picture provides a definite nostalgia for the days when monster movies were bereft of commercial pandering and noisy, humongous special effects. It's not in the same league as, say, "Creature From the Black Lagoon", but it does have some atmosphere. Whether it was intentional or not, some minor art comes through, along with a whole lotta bad acting. ** from ****