The Walking Dead

19361936
(Banned)(Banned)
1h 6m

After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.

6.7/10

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Director
- Michael Curtiz
Writers
- Ewart Adamson(screen play)
- Peter Milne(screen play)
- Robert Hardy Andrews(screen play)
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"Walking Dead, The" Boris Karloff 1936 Warner / **I.V.

Boris Karloff, Marguerite Churchill, and Edmund Gwenn in The Walking Dead (1936)

Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936)

Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, and Joe King in The Walking Dead (1936)

Boris Karloff and Ricardo Cortez in The Walking Dead (1936)

Ricardo Cortez, Marguerite Churchill, Edmund Gwenn, Warren Hull, and Henry O'Neill in The Walking Dead (1936)

Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, and Barton MacLane in The Walking Dead (1936)

Boris Karloff, Marguerite Churchill, and Warren Hull in The Walking Dead (1936)

Director
- Michael Curtiz
Writers
- Ewart Adamson(screen play) (story)
- Peter Milne(screen play)
- Robert Hardy Andrews(screen play)
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A gang of racketeers frames down-on-his-luck John Ellman for murder. After a trial finds him guilty, evidence is brought forth proving his innocence, but it is too late and he is executed anyway. A doctor sees an opportunity to use an experimental procedure to restore him to life but is that entirely possible? Desirable? —Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>

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Taglines
- THE BODY OF A GIANT! THE MIND OF A FIEND! RETURNED FROM THE DEAD TO WREAK VENGEANCE UPON HIS PERSECUTORS!! (original print ad - all caps)
Genres
Certificate
- (Banned)
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Trivia
The "glass heart" machine used to revive Karloff's dead character was said to be "nearly a prefect replica" of an actual perfusion pump--a device designed to keep organs alive outside an organism's body--which had been built by Charles Lindbergh, when the legendary pilot and engineer was working with a Nobel-winning scientist at New York's Rockefeller Institute research labs in the mid-1930s.

Goofs
Boris Karloff's character is named John Ellman in closeups of teletype and newspaper material, but misspelled John Elman in the credits.

Quotes
Jimmy: Imagine... Dr. Beaumont keeping this heart pumping for over twenty years!
Nancy: Wish he could do something about making your heart pump!

Connections
Featured in Kapteeni yli laidan (1964)

Soundtracks
Kamennoi Ostrow
Performed by Rubinstein

Top review

8/10

Karloff-Curtiz horror masterpiece

One of the best horror films of the 30s. The only criticism lies in some of the acting by the secondary characters. Otherwise, superb direction, magnificent Hal Mohr photography, good script and story, and excellent music score by Bernhard Kaun (which was NOT listed in the credits by the way). Even if you are not a horror fan, it rates high as a rainy day diversion.

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