King of the Zombies
1941 film by Jean Yarbrough
King of the Zombies is a 1941 film about three stranded travelers on an island, who find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.
- Directed by Jean Yarbrough. Written by Edmond Kelso.
Blood-chilling revelations of the weird cult that practices its black magic in the impenetrable jungles of Central America! (taglines)
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson
edit- [hearing voodoo drums] It ain't Gene Krupa!
- [Squeezing between two hypnotized "zombies"] Move over boys, I'm one of the gang now.
- If there's one thing that I wouldn't want to be twice, zombies is both of 'em.
Dialogue
edit- Samantha, the Maid: What you doing in that lineup?
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Don't bother me woman. Can't you see I is a has-been?
- Samantha, the Maid: A zombie?
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Nothing else but. And don't ask me my name, 'cuz I don't know. I don't know nothing.
- Samantha, the Maid: You ain't no zombie, 'cuz zombies can't talk.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Can I help it 'cuz I'm loquacious?
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Eating the food set out for the zombies] This being a zombie sure is a drawback. Where's the salt?
- Samantha, the Maid: You eats that the way it is and likes it. Zombies ain't supposed to use salt.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha brings Jeff the salt] I thought you said...
- Samantha, the Maid: I changed my mind.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha continues to pour the salt] That's more like it. Take it easy there woman, I ain't no herring!
- Samantha, the Maid: Now eat.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha keeps pouring the salt] Whew! What is you trying to do? Poison me?
- Bill Summers: It's the same drums we heard the other night. Voodoo drums! Come on, we've got to find him!
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Oh Mr. Billy, we found enough for one day!
- Bill Summers: [about to chase off after another eerie happening] Come on!
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: I cain't, my foot done took to root.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [after Dr. Sangre has shown Bill Summers and James McCarthy to their sleeping quarters] Excuse me, Mr. Doctor, but didn't you forget something?
- Dr. Miklos Sangre: I think not.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: What about me?
- Dr. Miklos Sangre: You will be taken care of.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: That's what I'm afraid of.
- Dr. Miklos Sangre: In the servants' quarters. Momba will show you the way.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [scared] Momba? That goblin?
- Dr. Miklos Sangre: He won't hurt you -- if he likes you.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: And if he don't?
- Dr. Miklos Sangre: [shrugs] Well.
- Bill Summers: It'll be all right, Jeff.
- Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: For who?
Taglines
edit- HUMAN SACRIFICES! SAVAGE TORTURE! VOODOO RITES!
- Blood-chilling revelations of the weird cult that practices its black magic in the impenetrable jungles of Central America!
- ARE YOU A ZOMBIE? If you can sit through this spine-tingling carnival of shrieks and howls without getting the thrill of a lifetime...you must belong to the living dead!
- Don't miss this shock-crammed punch-packed double thriller-chiller terror program!
Cast
edit- Dick Purcell — James "Mac" McCarthy
- Joan Woodbury — Barbara Winslow
- Mantan Moreland — Jefferson "Jeff" Jackson
- Henry Victor — Dr. Miklos Sangre
External links
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- King of the Zombies quotes at the Internet Movie Database