The Walking Dead released March 14, 1936

The Walking Dead is a 1936 horror film starring Boris Karloff as a wrongly executed man who is returned to life by a mad doctor (Edmund Gwenn). The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Walking Dead inspired the low-budget remake The Man They Could Not Hang (1939), released by Columbia Pictures and starring Karloff as both the mad doctor and the reanimated corpse.

Trivia:

• Filming began on November 28 (Boris Karloff’s 48th birthday) and lasted 18 days.
• Boris Karloff’s character was originally conceived as ‘Dopey’ Ellman and was a drug addict and alcoholic.
• The accident scene was shot in Griffith Park.

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