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Auction History Result 6a670 REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES 8x10.25 still '36 death struggle over sacrificial altar, super rare! Date Sold 3/22/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Revolt of the Zombies, the 1936 Victor Halperin World War I (WWI) romantic love triangle zombie fantasy horror thriller ("Weirdest love story in 200 years"; a bizarre story that starts out on the French-Austrian front in World War I, and a soldier finds an Asian priest with the secret of turning men into zombies, and they imprison the priest, and before he dies, the man thinks he gets the secret, but it leads him to Angkor in Cambodia, where he finds a hidden temple where he actually does get the secret, and while this has been going on, his girlfriend has turned to another man, and he turns hundreds of Cambodians into zombies, and uses them to force his girlfriend to marry him, and he plans on conquering the world, but when he realizes that his girlfriend doesn't love him, he becomes depressed and his zombies are overthrown and he is killed!) starring Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, Robert Noland, Carl Stockdale, Roy D'Arcy, George Cleveland, "and a Big Cast". Note that this movie originally was called "Revolt of the Demons", but because of the great success of "White Zombie" in 1932, the title was changed to "Revolt of the Zombies", and it was intended as a sort of sequel to the earlier movie, which was also directed by Halperin. Part of the movie was filmed on location in Angkor, which was the ruins of a lost Cambodian civilization (the movie "Forbidden Adventure in Angkor" was filmed the same year). There was a lawsuit over the title by Sherman S. Krellberg's Amusement Securities Corp, who had bought the rights to White Zombie, but he lost, and it was released with the Revolt of the Zombies title. The movie had a major archaeological expert as a technical adviser! Note that there are frequent images of zombie eyes superimposed over the screen, and director Halperin used Bela Lugosi's eyes from White Zombie for those images! Finally, it sure seems likely that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were inspired by this movie when they created Raiders of the Lost Ark, because it has several "borrowed" elements (there is a search for a secret that can destroy the world, and the action shifts from one remote location to another, etc.)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1936 movie posters from this early zombie movie are incredibly rare. We have never sold any first release items other than a pressbook from this movie until we received this still (and one other that we are auctioning in a separate auction)! Also note that this still measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm]. Condition: good to very good. There is a faint horizontal crease in the middle of the left half of the still. Learn More about condition grades 
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