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Synopsis: I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur. It was the second horror film from producer Val Lewton for RKO Pictures.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Production: Warner Home Video
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
APPROVED
Year:
1943
69 min
635 Views


BETSY:

You can't really believe that.

A star falls. They both follow its flight with their eyes.

HOLLAND:

(pointing to it)

Everything good dies here -- even

the stars.

He leaves his position by the mast and walks aft.

The group of negroes at the mainmast. They have stopped

singing and they sit about the charcoal brazier. They are

eating, tearing at the meat with cruel, greedy, animal

gestures. Holland walks past them on his way aft.

Betsy is puzzled and a little alarmed by Holland's strange

utterances and his queer behavior. Over this shot of Betsy

looking off at him, we hear her as narrator.

BETSY:

(narrating)

It was strange to have him break in

on my thoughts that way. There was

cruelty and hardness in his voice.

Yet -- something about him I liked --

something clean and honest -- but

hurt -- badly hurt.

FADE OUT:

FADE IN:

EXT. VILLAGE OF ST. SEBASTIAN -- DAY

St. Sebastian is a drab little West Indian village. The

shacks and houses of wood, lath and plaster seem to be

falling apart. Over the doorway of one of the buildings --

evidently an administrative office -- hangs an American flag,

indicating the government of the island. The hard-packed

dirt in the roadway is overgrown with weeds. Everywhere, and

moving indolently, are the little, badly nourished negroes,

some of them tending stalls and sidewalk vending booths,

others walking idly. Betsy, followed by a black sailor with

her suitcases, comes down the gangway. Parallel to this

gangway is another.

Up the second gangway, in file, black stevedores with bundles

of sugar cane and small bales of sisal hemp on their heads,

go up to the boat.

On the dock, Betsy makes her way through a group of clamorous

children, vendors and beggars. As the black sailor puts her

luggage into an umbrella-topped surrey drawn by a gaunt mule,

she stops, delighted, before a great basket filled with

enormous white flowers. The man seated beside the basket

seems to be asleep, his face hidden by the drooping brim of a

straw hat. Betsy picks up one of the blooms, smells it and

then looks at the vendor.

BETSY:

How much is this?

The vendor wakens and lifts his head, revealing a face

bloated and scarified by yaws, a hideous nightmare face.

Betsy, startled, steps back, letting the flower drop. Paul

Holland, passing her, looks at this little tableau of horror

and disgust.

HOLLAND:

(in passing)

You're beginning to learn.

Betsy looks after him as he walks away into the village.

DISSOLVE:

EXT. ROAD TO FORT HOLLAND -- DAY -- (PROCESS)

An umbrella-topped surrey, drawn by a gaunt mule and piloted

by an old coachman in dirty white singlet, a top hat with a

cockade on his graying hair, is making its way along a dusty

road between fields of sugar cane. In the distance, the sea

is visible and above it the great billowing white clouds of

the Caribbean. Betsy, seated on the back seat of the

carriage, is bending forward to listen to the old man.

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Curt Siodmak

Curt Siodmak was a Polish-born American novelist and screenwriter. He is known for his work in the horror and science fiction film genres, with such films as The Wolf Man and Donovan's Brain. more…

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