I Walked With a Zombie at Cultural Center
I Walked With a Zombie
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) 69 min. RKO/Warner Bros. D: Jacques Tourneur. A Canadian nurse (Frances Dee) travels to the Caribbean’s Dutch-colonized Saint Sebastian Island to care for the comatose wife of sugar baron Paul Holland (Tom Conway). But Dee’s new surroundings create a seductive coercion – and not just because she’s falling in love with her employer. Warned by Conway that the island’s lush beauty cloaks its dark history and ominous decay, the nurse becomes increasingly beguiled by the native voodoo cult. This now-famous collaboration between Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past) and uber-creative producer Val Lewton deftly blends the horrific legacy of European imperialism and slavery into an atmospheric masterpiece about the boundaries between the living and the dead. Often termed the West Indian version of Jane Eyre, this ground-breaking picture was cited by Tourneur as his personal favorite. With: James Ellison, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Theresa Harris and Sir Lancelot.
Scheduled Special Guest: Producer-Actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee.
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Scheduled Special Guest: Producer-Actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee.
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) 69 min. RKO/Warner Bros. D: Jacques Tourneur. A Canadian nurse (Frances Dee) travels to the Caribbean’s Dutch-colonized Saint Sebastian Island to care for the comatose wife of sugar baron Paul Holland (Tom Conway). But Dee’s new surroundings create a seductive coercion – and not just because she’s falling in love with her employer. Warned by Conway that the island’s lush beauty cloaks its dark history and ominous decay, the nurse becomes increasingly beguiled by the native voodoo cult. This now-famous collaboration between Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past) and uber-creative producer Val Lewton deftly blends the horrific legacy of European imperialism and slavery into an atmospheric masterpiece about the boundaries between the living and the dead. Often termed the West Indian version of Jane Eyre, this ground-breaking picture was cited by Tourneur as his personal favorite. With: James Ellison, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Theresa Harris and Sir Lancelot.
Scheduled Special Guest: Producer-Actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee.
Scheduled Special Guest: Producer-Actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee.
I Walked With a Zombie
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) 69 min. RKO/Warner Bros. D: Jacques Tourneur. A Canadian nurse (Frances Dee) travels to the Caribbean’s Dutch-colonized Saint Sebastian Island to care for the comatose wife of sugar baron Paul Holland (Tom Conway). But Dee’s new surroundings create a seductive coercion – and not just because she’s falling in love with her employer. Warned by Conway that the island’s lush beauty cloaks its dark history and ominous decay, the nurse becomes increasingly beguiled by the native voodoo cult. This now-famous collaboration between Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past) and uber-creative producer Val Lewton deftly blends the horrific legacy of European imperialism and slavery into an atmospheric masterpiece about the boundaries between the living and the dead. Often termed the West Indian version of Jane Eyre, this ground-breaking picture was cited by Tourneur as his personal favorite. With: James Ellison, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Theresa Harris and Sir Lancelot.
Scheduled Special Guest: Producer-Actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee.
