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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Edward L. Cahn released in USA on 13 november 1959 with Eduard Franz
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
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Add to a movie listThe Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 American black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E. Kent on contract for distribution by United Artists.
It was made as a part of a package with Invisible Invaders.
Synopsis
Jonathan Drake (Eduard Franz), a university professor specializing in the occult, is summoned to the home of his brother, Kenneth Drake (Paul Cavanagh), when a family curse threatens Kenneth's life. Jonathan Drake arrives too late to save his brother from a violent death and subsequent decapitation before his burial. The curse is the work of Dr. Emil Zurich (Henry Daniell), a Swiss agent who was a member of Jonathan Drake's ancestor's exploration party two hundred years previously. Zurich was captured, thus forcing Captain Drake to lead a rescue party into the jungle. Drake's party massacres the tribe (save for the tribal witch doctor Zutai (Paul Wexler), only to find that Zurich has been beheaded. Zutai is assisting the miraculously resurrected Zurich in his pursuit for revenge and supernatural destiny against Captain Drake's male descendants. Zurich and Zutai lay their plans to murder and behead Jonathan Drake, which will end the curse on the Drake family.Actors
Eduard Franz
(Jonathan Drake)
Valerie French
(Alison Drake)
Boris Karloff
Henry Daniell
(Dr. Emil Zurich)
Paul Cavanagh
(Kenneth Drake)
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