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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 330

Dead Men Walk

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Synopsis

A respected doctor secretly kills his twin brother, convinced that the man's occult activities endanger everyone around him. The brother returns as a blood-drinking supernatural presence and turns his revenge against the doctor's household. Protecting a young niece forces the physician to confront an evil that now shares his own face.

Cast

DirectorsSam Newfield

Behind the scenes

George Zucco plays both brothers in a production filmed on a six-day schedule for PRC. The picture was Mary Carlisle's final film and one of Dwight Frye's last appearances, pairing two performers closely associated with different parts of early Hollywood horror.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.

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