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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Bela Lugosi | ... | 'Murder' Legendre | |
| Madge Bellamy | ... | Madeline Short Parker | |
| Joseph Cawthorn | ... | Dr. Bruner | |
| Robert Frazer | ... | Charles Beaumont | |
| John Harron | ... | Neil Parker | |
| Brandon Hurst | ... | Silver | |
| George Burr Macannan | ... | Von Gelder - Zombie (as George Burr MacAnnan) | |
| Frederick Peters | ... | Chauvin - Zombie | |
| Annette Stone | ... | Maid | |
| John T. Prince | ... | Ledot - Zombie (as John Printz) | |
| Dan Crimmins | ... | Pierre - Witch Doctor | |
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Claude Morgan | ... | Zombie |
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John Fergusson | ... | Zombie |
| Velma Gresham | ... | Tall Maid | |
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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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(uncredited)
Music by Franz Liszt
Played on piano by Madge Bellamy
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This film was shot in only eleven days, completed March 1932. See more »Goofs
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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 »Alternate Versions
Also available in a computer colorized version. See more »Soundtracks
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
4 August 1932 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
White Zombie See more »Filming Locations:
RKO-Pathé Studios - 9336 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Edit
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$50,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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You have to change your way of looking at movies to really enjoy old horror movies like this one. Don't be in a rush to see action, violence and don't expect to see any bloodshed at all. Most of the grisly part is implied and you have to fill in the details. Instead, watch it for the scenery, the acting and the plot.
I prefer the older horror films to the newer, slash-fest movies because they allow me to think and they generally have a good, moral theme. You never have a good guy as a demon or a fiend, for instance.
White Zombie has the older, traditional zombie characters that are not evil in themselves. Instead, they are mindless and controlled by a shaman, who is generally evil and must be destroyed to set the zombies, who are victims, free. In the newer Zombie movies like Night of the Living Dead, the Zombies are either not controlled or are evil themselves and must be destroyed.
I think the acting by the zombies is very good and so is their make-up (i.e. they have very frightening faces.) Their master, played by Bela Lugosi, is also played masterfully. The missionary is also good, but most of the rest of the cast is only average.
It's a fun movie to watch and I gave it a score of 7 out of 10. If you love early horror movies, buy it. Don't pay more than $10 unless it's packaged with other movies because the picture and the sound quality are weak. If not, you might catch it on a Friday night horror fest on TV. It's worth the time watching it if for Bela Lugosi alone.