The Walking Dead (1936 film)
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The Walking Dead is a 1936 film about a hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, and is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
- Directed by Michael Curtiz. Written by Ewart Adamson.
HOW CAN A MAN AVENGE HIS OWN MURDER? (taglines)
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John Ellman[edit]
- Why did you have me killed?
- [looking up to Heaven while being led to the electric chair] He'll believe me.
Dr. Evan Beaumont[edit]
- [comforting Nancy who is sobbing over Ellman's death] He's happier now. It will never be known. The Lord thy God is a jealous God!
Dialogue[edit]
- Jimmy: Imagine... Dr. Beaumont keeping this heart pumping for over twenty years!
- Nancy: Wish he could do something about making your heart pump!
- John Ellman: Last night I thought you were my friend. You took my life!
- 'Trigger' Smith: [contemptuously] I'm gonna take it again unless you got cat blood in ya. No one's gonna bring you back this time.
- John Ellman: You can't kill me again!
- John Ellman: [in the prison as he awaits execution, hoping for a reprieve] But you can't kill me for something that I didn't do! You can't, I tell you, you can't! I don't want to die! I want to live!
- Prison Warden: Well, Ellman, it's within my power to grant any last request you care to make.
- John Ellman: [sounding slightly bitter] You take away my life and offer me a favor in return. That's what I call a "bargain."
- John Ellman: [responding to Beaumont's questions while dying] Leave the dead to their makers. The Lord thy God is a jealous God.
- Dr. Evan Beaumont: [feeling a sense of urgency] But John, what is death? Can't you put it into words? Tell me! Tell me! You must! What is death?
- John Ellman: I think I can... [after a pause] After the shock...
- Dr. Evan Beaumont: Yes?
- John Ellman: I seemed to feel...
- Dr. Evan Beaumont: Yes?
- John Ellman: ...peace and a... [dies]
- Dr. Evan Beaumont: All I know is that for a short time the spirit of life left his body. Now, what happened during that transition? What effect did the experience of death have on his subconscious mind. Can he remember?
- District Attorney Werner: Well, it's rather a large order, doctor, and I'm afraid a bit beyond the province of law...
- Dr. Evan Beaumont: ...and beyond the province of science too, but it's a challenge, and somewhere, I think, we'll find the key to all this.
- District Attorney Werner: If you do, I hope you'll let me know.
Taglines[edit]
- THE BODY OF A GIANT! THE MIND OF A FIEND! RETURNED FROM THE DEAD TO WREAK VENGEANCE UPON HIS PERSECUTORS!!
- ETERNITY COULD NOT HOLD HIM!...A mystery drama that will raise goose pimples!
- BACK FROM THE DEAD!
- See science bring an electrocuted convict back to life...with supernatural powers to rub out one by one the killers who sent him to the chair!
- HOW CAN A MAN AVENGE HIS OWN MURDER?
Cast[edit]
- Boris Karloff — John Ellman
- Ricardo Cortez — Mr. Nolan
- Edmund Gwenn — Dr. Evan Beaumont
- Marguerite Churchill — Nancy
- Warren Hull — Jimmy
- Barton MacLane — Loder
- Henry O'Neill — District Attorney Werner
- Joe King — Judge Roger Shaw
- Addison Richards — Prison Warden
- Paul Harvey — Blackstone
- Robert Strange — Merritt
- Joe Sawyer — "Trigger" Smith
- Eddie Acuff — Betcha
- Kenneth Harlan — Stephen Martin
- Miki Morita — Sako, Loder's Butler
- Frank Darien — Cemetery Caretaker
External links[edit]
- The Walking Dead quotes at the Internet Movie Database