ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY-1945-Two stupid publicity agents (Alan Carney & Wally Brown) get in trouble with a gangster (Sheldon Leonard) when they promise a real life zombie will appear at the opening of his nightclub and then can’t deliver. He sends them to the island of San Sebastian to get a real zombie and they meet a mad scientist Dr. Renault (played by Bela Lugosi) who’s trying to make his own “scientific zombie” in his lab.
Darby Jones (from I WALK WITH A ZOMBIE) is Renault’s living dead servant. Also with Anne Jeffreys, Ian Wolfe and Frank Jenks.
Brown & Carney made a series of RKO comedies between 1943 and 1946. They are usually described as a “lower case Abbott & Costello” but are more like a lower case Bud Abbott & Curly Howard!
Lugosi would be in the team’s GENIUS AT WORK the next year too. Director Gordon Douglas later helmed the giant ant fest THEM.
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