Directed by:
Jean YarbroughCinematography:
Mack StenglerComposer:
Edward J. KayCast:
Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, John Archer, Patricia Stacey, Laurence Criner, Henry Victor, Guy Usher, Leigh WhipperPlots(1)
John Archer, Dick Purcell and valet Mantan Moreland are forced to down their small aircraft on a remote Caribbean Island. Mad scientist (Henry Victor) is using voodoo & hypnotism to turn the local populace into an army of zombies. His fiendish pan is to use them in gathering secret defense information for the Axis. Mantan Moreland steals the show with a memorable comic performance that elevates the King of the Zombies to a cult classic. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Dick Purcell
USA
Best movies:
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
In Old California (1942)
Joan Woodbury
USA
Best movies:
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Mantan Moreland
USA
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
John Archer
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
White Heat (1949)
Rock Around the Clock (1956)
Patricia Stacey
Best movies:
King of the Zombies (1941)
Laurence Criner
USA
Best movies:
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
King of the Zombies (1941)
Henry Victor
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Freaks (1932)
The Mortal Storm (1940)
Guy Usher
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Leigh Whipper
USA
Best movies:
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Horrible Horror (1986) - a.f.