EPISODE · Feb 20, 2019 · 54 MIN
Episode 99 - Poverty Row Dracula
from Scream Scene Podcast · host Scream Scene Podcast
We head back to poverty row studio PRC for Sam Newfield's DEAD MEN WALK (1943) starring George Zucco, Dwight Frye, Nedrick Young, Mary Carlisle, and George Zucco! The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him... let's test this hypothesis! PRC is the bottom rung of the studio prestige ladder, yet DEAD MEN WALK shows a semblance of talent out of Sam Newfield... so why did Newfield succeed where Ed Wood tended to fail? This and more discussion of classic horror awaits. Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 13:52; Discussion 27:44; Ranking 41:24
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We head back to poverty row studio PRC for Sam Newfield's DEAD MEN WALK (1943) starring George Zucco, Dwight Frye, Nedrick Young, Mary Carlisle, and George Zucco! The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him... let's test this hypothesis! PRC is the bottom rung of the studio prestige ladder, yet DEAD MEN WALK shows a semblance of talent out of Sam Newfield... so why did Newfield succeed where Ed Wood tended to fail? This and more discussion of classic horror awaits. Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 13:52; Discussion 27:44; Ranking 41:24
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