The Walking Dead
After Judge Roger Shaw finds a man guilty of diverting and misappropriating public funds and sentences him to ten years with no parole, a plan is hatched to get back at Shaw with murder by a gang of racketeers. John Ellman, recently released after being jailed by Shaw for ten years after striking a man that led to his death, is asked to take watch of Shaw for supposed infidelity. Shaw is shot and killed in his car with Ellman found at the scene of the crime (having heard the crash) and assumed to be the murderer; Nancy and Jimmy, a young couple working for Dr. Evan Beaumont, had seen the dead body being moved into a car, but are told by a mysterious man to keep quiet. Ellman is framed for the murder. He is unfairly tried (complete with mediocre work from Nolan for the defense) and despite the fact that his innocence has been proven, he is sent to the electric chair and executed. Beaumont (who had called Ellman's attorney about the couple) retrieves his dead body and revives it as part of his experiments to reanimate a dead body and discover what happens to the soul after death.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Crime, Horror, Sci Fi, Drama |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Louis F. Edelman |
Directed By: | Michael Curtiz |
Written By: | Peter Milne, Ewart Adamson, Robert Hardy Andrews, Lillie Hayward, Joseph Fields |
Cast: | Kenneth Harlan, Larry Kent, Sarah Edwards, Malcolm Graham, Charles Sherlock, Joe King, Robert Strange, Wade Boteler, Miki Morita, James Pierce, Harrington Reynolds, Boyd Irwin, Edmund Gwenn, Henry O'Neill, Lee Phelps, Bill Elliott, George Beranger, Marguerite Churchill, Leo White, Eddie Shubert, Lee Prather, Richard Kipling, Frank Darien, Edwin J. Carlie, Edward Gargan, Brandon Beach, John J. Richardson, Isabel La Mal, Alphonse Martell, William H. O'Brien, Eddie Acuff, Earle Hodgins, Tom Brower, Carl Faulkner, Warren Hull, Barton MacLane, Joe Sawyer, Nick Moro, Tom Schamp, Boris Karloff, Crauford Kent, Paul Irving, Lucille Collins, Milton Kibbee, Ricardo Cortez, Sam Rice, Billy Wayne, Charles Marsh, Ruth Robinson, James P. Burtis, Addison Richards, Fred Hueston, Paul Panzer, Paul Harvey, John Kelly, Syd Saylor, Edgar Sherrod, Harry Hollingsworth, Glen Cavender |
In Theaters: | Mar 14, 1936 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 6 minutes |
Production: | Warner Bros. |
Budget: | $217,000 |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |