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King of the Zombies DVD

Set in the Caribbean during WW II, this zombie chiller tells the tail of an American special agent who, along with his butler and a pilot, is sent out to find a missing American Admiral, whose plane crashed on one of the islands. Unfortunately, the heroes' plane also crashes. Fortunately, a kindly German doctor with a very strange wife is there to help them. The doctor explains that his spouse is in a strange trance and he is trying to find a cure. The butler soon discovers that she is not the only one; the island is teeming with zombies. He tries to tell the host, but he refuses to believe in voodoo hocus pocus. The butler and the pilot find themselves entranced. Fortunately, the agent is still around to solve the mystery of the zombies and bring the culprit, an enemy spy, to justice. — Sandra Brennan

Your tolerance for King of the Zombies will likely depend on your viewpoint toward the self-deprecating ethnic humor of black comedic actor Mantan Moreland, who, despite his third billing behind two white actors, is the film's star. While it's true that Moreland is once again playing a servant, the basic story-structure is not unlike Gosford Park in that the servants are the ones who understand what's going on. Because roles of any sort for black actors were scarce in Hollywood in the 1940s, even Poverty Row studios like Monogram could afford very good supporting casts. The ostensibly top-billed Dick Purcell and Joan Woodbury were prolific B-movie performers of little distinction. Here they are tepid duds, unable to do much more than occupy space on the screen. The film's most interesting moments come from Moreland, Leigh Whipper, and Marguerite Whitten, and to a lesser extent from Henry Victor and John Archer. Because King of the Zombies was released in May 1941, some months before the United States entered World War II, Victor's villainous Dr. Sangre is a disguised Nazi rather than an outright one. It's one of his better performances, though here he has not so nearly as good a screenplay as he did when playing Hercules, the strongman in Tod Browning's 1932 horror classic Freaks, or the harried comedic foil of Jack Benny in Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 masterpiece To Be or Not to Be. Rarely an innovator, Monogram, like much of the rest of Hollywood, tended to imitate the types of films that were successful elsewhere. King of the Zombies' horror-comedy inspiration comes most directly from Bob Hope's 1940 hit The Ghost Breakers with Willie Best in the servant role and Noble Johnson as the zombie. As bad as King of the Zombies is, it's not much better or worse than the quasi-remake Revenge of the Zombies that Monogram cobbled together a year later. If you really want to see King of the Zombies, it tends to turn up on the television schedule each March as a part of cable station TNT's "31 Days of Oscar." Because of the rules in effect for films released in 1941, every studio was guaranteed at least one nomination in the Musical Score category. Monogram got a freebie and placed Edward Kay on the ballot. Kay's score largely consists of minimalist motifs repeated against the background of beating voodoo drums. Even for a Poverty Row studio like Monogram it's pretty bad, and would likely be a leading contender if anyone bothered to put together a list of the all-time worst Oscar nominations. — Richard Gilliam

Cast

Joan Woodbury  - Barbara Winslow
Dick Purcell  - James McCarthy
Mantan Moreland  - Jeff
Henry Victor  - Dr. Sangre
John Archer  - Bill Summers
Patricia Stacey  - Alyce Sangre
Marguerite Whitten  - Samantha
Jimmie Davis   
Lawrence Criner   
Leigh Whipper  - Momba
Mme. Sul Te Wan  - Tabama
Guy Usher  - Admiral Wainwright

Similar Movies
 The Plague of the Zombies  (1966, John Gilling)
 I Walked with a Zombie  (1943, Jacques Tourneur)
 The Return of the Living Dead  (1985, Dan O'Bannon)
 White Zombie  (1932, Victor Halperin)
 
Movies with the Same Personnel
 Revenge of the Zombies  (1943, Steve Sekely)
 The Devil Bat  (1941, Jean Yarbrough)
 Pin-Up Girl  (1944, H. Bruce Humberstone)
 The Whistler  (1944, William Castle)
 Hi 'ya, Sailor  (1943, Jean Yarbrough)
 House of Horrors  (1946, Jean Yarbrough)
 The Naughty Nineties  (1945, Jean Yarbrough)
 She Devil  (1957, Kurt Neumann)

Revolt of the Zombies DVD

Plot

Designed as a follow-up to the Halperin Brothers' phenomenally successful White Zombie, Revolt of the Zombies unfortunately isn't nearly as good. The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which dead men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda. Stealing a set of secret tablets, he sets about to create his own army of zombies, targeting those whom he considers to be enemies. But Armand is hoist on his own petard when the zombies rebel and turn against him. The anachronistic moviemaking techniques which contributed so much to the atmosphere and entertainment value of White Zombie are totally out of place in Revolt of the Zombies; also, Dean Jagger's performance lacks the conviction necessary for this sort of horror fare. — Hal Erickson

Cast

Dorothy Stone  - Claire Duval
Dean Jagger  - Armand Louque
Roy D'Arcy  - Col. Mazovia
Robert Noland  - Clifford Grayson
George Cleveland  - Gen. Duval
Fred Warren  - Dr. Trevissant
Carl Stockdale  - Ignacio McDonald
Teru Shimada  - Buna
William Crowell  - Hsiang
Hans Schumm  - German Soldier
Selmar Jackson  - Officer

Similar Movies
 White Zombie  (1932, Victor Halperin)
 Night of the Living Dead  (1968, George A. Romero)
 I Walked with a Zombie  (1943, Jacques Tourneur)
 The Plague of the Zombies  (1966, John Gilling)
 
Movies with the Same Personnel
 Supernatural  (1933, Victor Halperin)
 White Zombie  (1932, Victor Halperin)
 Alligator  (1980, Lewis Teague)
 Torture Ship  (1939, Victor Halperin)
 I Conquer the Sea  (1936, Victor Halperin)
 The Stranger  (1973, Lee H. Katzin)
 Nation Aflame  (1937, Victor Halperin, Norma Trelvar)
 Rawhide  (1951, Henry Hathaway)

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