Dead Men Walk is a 1943 horror film about the twin of a kindly small-town physician who returns from the grave to take vengeance on his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.
The movie was directed by Sam Newfield from a story and screenplay by Fred Myton. It was produced by Sigmund Neufeld for Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC).
The movie stars George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young, Dwight Frye, Fern Emmett, Robert Strange, Hal Price and Sam Flint.
Plot [includes spoilers]:
a kindly small-town physician, Doctor Lloyd Clayton, who has secretly murdered his twin brother Elwyn, because of Elwyn’s deep involvement in satanic occult 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 Doctor David Bentley, soon discover that Elwyn is still alive, and are in peril for this knowledge.
Doctor Clayton realises 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.
Release:
Dead Men Walk was reissued in the USA in 1948 by Madison Pictures Inc. The film is now in the public domain and is free to view online.
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