| Dead Men Walk | |
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 Film poster forDead Men Walk | |
| Directed by | Sam Newfield |
| Written by | Fred Myton |
| Produced by | Sigmund Neufeld |
| Starring | Dwight Frye George Zucco Mary Carlisle Nedrick Young Forrest Taylor |
| Cinematography | Jack Greenhalgh |
| Edited by | Holbrook N. Todd |
| Music by | Leo Erdody |
| Distributed by | Producers Releasing Corporation |
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Running time | 64 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Dead Men Walk is a 1943 Americanhorror film produced bySigmund Neufeld forProducers Releasing Corporation (PRC). It is an original story and screenplay byFred Myton, starringGeorge Zucco,Mary Carlisle,Nedrick Young, andDwight Frye, directed bySam Newfield. It was originally distributed by PRC and reissued in the US in 1948 by Madison Pictures, Inc.
The story involves a kindly small-town physician, Doctor Lloyd Clayton, who has secretly murdered his twin brother Elwyn, because of Elwyn's deep involvement insatanicoccult practices. Only Elwyn's hunchback assistant Zolarr suspects the good doctor of doing away with his master and confronts him, but the doctor maintains that he only acted in self-defense when his brother had become a danger to society.
Meanwhile, because Elwyn had gone far with his study of the dark arts before his demise, he returns to life as an evil supernatural being who begins murdering the villagers by draining them of their blood. The doctor and his beautiful young niece, Gayle Clayton, and her fiancé Dr. David Bentley, soon discover that Elwyn is still alive, and are in peril for this knowledge.
Dr. Clayton realizes the only way he can help his niece is to kill Elwyn again, and plans to destroy him with fire. Clayton becomes trapped in the resulting conflagration, and along with Elwyn and Zolarr perishes in the flames of Elwyn's accursed library.
The film was shot in six days. It was the final film of Mary Carlisle.[1] She made the film shortly after getting married.[2]
It was one of the last film appearances of Dwight Frye.[3]
As of November 2016, the film scored 4.7/10 on theInternet Movie Database and 10% onRotten Tomatoes.
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