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The Walking Dead is a film of genre Science fiction directed by Michael Curtiz released in USA on 14 march 1936 with Boris Karloff
The Walking Dead (1936)
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Add to a movie listThe Walking Dead is a 1936 American horror film distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Boris Karloff who played a wrongly executed man who is restored to life by a scientist (Edmund Gwenn).
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John Ellman (Boris Karloff) has been framed for murder by a gang of racketeers. He is unfairly tried and despite the fact that his innocence has been proven, he is sent to the electric chair and executed. Dr. Evan Beaumont (Edmund Gwenn) retrieves his dead body and revives it, as part of his experiments to reanimate a dead body and discover what happens to the soul after death.Actors
Boris Karloff
(John Ellman)
Ricardo Cortez
(Nolan)
Edmund Gwenn
(Dr. Evan Beaumont)
Marguerite Churchill
(Nancy)
Barton MacLane
(Loder)
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