The Walking Dead is a 1936 black-and-white 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, director of Casablanca, 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 in one role.
This 1995 film The Walking Dead stars Allen Payne and Eddie Griffin, is written and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II.
A gang of racketeers frames down-on-his-luck John Elman for murder. After a trial finds him guilty, evidence is brought forth proving his innocence, but it is too late and he is executed anyway. A doctor sees an opportunity to use an experimental procedure to restore him to life but is that entirely possible? Desirable? Written by Ken Yousten
In 1972 Vietnam, Marines are sent in to rescue some POW officers. The cold landing zone is hot and after a short fight, only 4 are left alive. The platoon they are to meet the next day is wipe out except for one nut-case. They conclude that they are expendable decoys. Between the walking, talking, arguing and assaulting between the four, there are flashbacks to contrite life before the Marines. Written by Tony Fontana
