# The Walking Dead (1936)

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**Runtime**: 66 min
**Genres**: Crime, Horror, Science Fiction, Drama
**Directed by**: Michael Curtiz
**Written by**: Ewart Adamson, Lillie Hayward, Peter Milne
**Starring**: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Warren Hull, Barton MacLane

> *HE DIED a man with a hunger to love... and returned a monster with an instinct to kill.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Dark prison corridors on a rainy night a solitary cell door creaks 
a wrongly convicted man sits awaiting death 
a product of 1930s pre-code horror.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid

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