The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is a 1936 American horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Boris Karloff. Karloff plays a wrongly executed man who is restored to life by a scientist . It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. John Elman 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. But Dr. Evan Beaumont retrieves his dead body and revives it, as part of his experiments to reanimate a dead body. Dr. Beaumont's use of a mechanical heart to revive the patient... foreshadows modern medicine's mechanical heart to keep patients alive during surgery. Interestingly, although John Elman has no direct knowledge of anyone wishing to frame him for the murder before he is executed, he seems to have an innate sense of knowing those who are responsible after he is revived. Elman takes no direct action against his framers, and in the end it is their own guilt that causes their deaths. This was the first of a multi-film contract between Karloff and Warner Bros.
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