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King of the Zombies<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1941)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Jean Yarbrough<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay:\u00a0 Edmond Kelso<\/strong> Stars:\u00a0 Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury,\u00a0 Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer <\/strong>and Marguerite Whitten.\u00a0<\/strong> Tagline:\u00a0 HUMAN SACRIFICES! SAVAGE TORTURE! VOODOO RITES! <\/em><\/p>\n The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers…<\/p>\n 1941.\u00a0 World War II is raging across Europe.\u00a0 James “Mac” McCarthy (Purcell) is flying his small plane from Cuba.\u00a0 With McCarthy is his valet, Jeff Jackson (Moreland) and his buddy, Bill Summers (Archer).\u00a0 A terrible storm blows them off course.\u00a0 Running low on fuel, they pick up a transmission in a foreign language.\u00a0 They spot a small island and although banged up, survive a crash landing.<\/p>\n Dr. Miklos Sangre (Victor) lives on the island with his wife, Alyce (Stacey), and his many servants.\u00a0 Sangre invites Mac, Jeff and Bill into his mansion.\u00a0 Sangre shows Mac and Bill respect, but Jeff is treated like one of the servants.\u00a0 Jeff quickly picks up that something is off with Dr. Sangre. There are strange things taking place on the island.\u00a0 Will Jeff be able to convince Mac and Bill?\u00a0 And if they do believe Jeff will it be too late?<\/p>\n King of the Zombies<\/em> was originally conceived as a straight up horror film.\u00a0 Bela Lugosi was announced to star.\u00a0 With the success of Bob Hope’s The Ghost Breakers<\/em>, King of the Zombies<\/em> was re-written as a comedy.\u00a0 Mantan Moreland’s character was added.\u00a0 The producers were unable to get Lugosi.\u00a0 Their second choice was Peter Lore.\u00a0 He was also unavailable, so they went with Henry Victor.\u00a0 Victor is excellent as the creepy foreign agent.<\/p>\n The real star of King of the Zombies<\/em> is Mantan Moreland.\u00a0 He is excellent as the scared, but perceptive sidekick (who steals the show).\u00a0 Marguerite Whitten who appeared with Moreland in Mr. Washington Goes to Town<\/em> and Lucky Ghost<\/em>, is a welcome addition as a source of information and Mantan’s love interest.\u00a0 Madame Sul-Te-Wan makes a believable voodoo priestess.<\/p>\n King of the Zombies<\/em> is a low budget “B” picture that is heads and shoulders above most of the same type films of this era.\u00a0 If you’re a fan of the genre, you should enjoy King of the Zombies<\/em>.<\/p>\n King of the Zombies<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n King of the Zombies\u00a0(1941) Director:\u00a0 Jean Yarbrough Screenplay:\u00a0 Edmond Kelso Stars:\u00a0 Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury,\u00a0 Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,63,54,74,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30918,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30806\/revisions\/30918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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