On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during WW I, an oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power of turning men into zombies. As the priest,in his prison cell, is preparing to burn the parchment containing the location of the secret formula, Colonel Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy, the accented version of Theodore Lorch) kills the priest and takes the partially-burned parchment. Fade to after the war to an expedition of representatives from all the Allied countries (only those with colonial interests it appears) being sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the Secret of the Zombies. The group includes Colonel Mazovia (somewhat akin to sending the fox to guard the hen house) ; a student of dead languages, Armand Louque (Dean Jagger) ; Englishman Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland) ; and General Duval (George Cleveland) and his daughter Claire (Dorothy Stone.) Armand falls in love with Claire, who accepts his proposal of marriage in order to spite Clifford whom she really loves. Later, when Claire, following an accident, runs to Cliff for comfort, Armand breaks the engagement, leaving her free to marry Cliff. Further accidents, caused by Mazovia, results in the natives refusing to work and the expedition returns to Pnom Penh. Armand fins a clue which he had overlooked before and returns to Angkor against orders. After viewing an ancient ceremony at the temple, Armand follows one of the servants of the high priest out of the temple, through a swamp, to a bronze doorway. When the servant leaves, Armand goes through the door to a room paneled in bronze, with an idol holding a gong in one hand in the middle of the room. He accidently strikes the gong, and a panel in the wall opens revealing a small metal tablet. He translates the inscription and realizes that it is the secret for which they have all been looking. He alone now has the power to make zombies out of people, beginning with a practice run on his servant before taking up that little matter of the fickle Claire. Armand is not one to be trifled with.
Starring:
Notes:
Dorothy Stone....Claire Duval
Dean Jagger....Armand Louque
Roy D'Arcy....Col. Mazovia
Robert Noland....Clifford Grayson
George Cleveland....Gen. Duval
Fred Warren....Dr. Trevissant (as E. Alyn 'Fred' Warren)
Carl Stockdale....Ignacio MacDonald
William Crowell....Priest Tsiang
Comments:
A little extract from imdb:
With this movie only running 61 minutes and nothing all that good on
television, I decided to pop Revolt of the Zombies into the DVD to pass the
time. Even while realizing the era from which it was coming, I was sorely
disappointed. It started with the oddly upbeat quality of the opening score
(what - no brooding music?) and then the rather slow moving opening
sequences. Gosh, I figured a movie about zombies - even from the 1930s -
would have SOME chills to it (White Zombie, with Bela Lugosi, certainly did)
but this had none. Zero. It was scarcely even dramatic (except for the few
moments with the burning eyes superimposed on the film to indicate the
mesmerization of someone). Like the equally dull King of the Zombies, this
movie may be an interesting curiosity to own, but nothing
more.
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