Underplayed Gems

The Walking Dead (1936)

The Walking Dead poster
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Genre
horror film, science fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 06m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 96 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man is wrongly executed and then brought back to life by a doctor with a machine. The revived man seeks justice against those who framed him.

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What happens

The Walking Dead is a 1936 American science fiction horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Marguerite Churchill, and Barton MacLane. The film portrays a wrongly executed man who is restored to life by a scientist. The film blends elements of the horror genre with the gangster film, and also features elements of a religious morality parable. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, The Walking Dead premiered in the New York City on February 29, 1936. It was a commercial success for Warner Bros. domestically, though it was subject to censorship in several countries, receiving numerous cuts by film censors in the United Kingdom, as well as being banned in Finland, Switzerland, and Singapore. The film's portrayal of a physician using a mechanical heart to revive the patient is notable in that it foreshadowed modern medicine's mechanical heart used to keep patients alive during cardiac surgery. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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