Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

utgard14 PRC cheapie about a small-town doctor whose devil-worshipping twin brother is killed, only to come back from the dead hellbent on revenge. George Zucco plays both parts and does a great job. He brings some much-needed class to an otherwise shoddy Poverty Row production. That isn't to say it's a bad movie. It all depends on your expectations, really. It's hard sometimes to judge these old cheapies, as most of the available prints today are in bad shape with a lot of audio hiss and poor picture quality. If you're a fan of George Zucco, I doubt you'll be disappointed. Dwight Frye has a small Renfieldesque part. He's enjoyable as always. This is also the final film of Mary Carlisle. It's a nice unassuming little vampire movie. Slow-going but watchable. Love the opening.

bkoganbing Mary Carlisle who was a WAMPAS baby star back in 1932 and did three films with Bing Crosby at Paramount ends her career with this rather sorry horror film from poverty row Producer's Releasing Corporation. But she takes a back seat to George Zucco playing brothers in Dead Men Walk, a good and a bad Dr. Zucco.The bad Dr. Zucco was killed in a fight with the good one, but with the aid of his acolyte slave Dwight Frye he comes back from the dead as a vampire and he starts killing people. And since they're twins folks around the area think it's the good and live doctor just gone bad.The bad Zucco also bites Mary Carlisle and tries to put her under his influence as surely as Bela Lugosi did with Helen Chandler. In fact this whole film is a cheap imitation of Dracula without the great Gothic scenes and atmosphere that Lugosi's film at Universal a classic.I'll bet Mary Carlisle wished that Bing was crooning a love song at her again. She left the movies after this stinker and I'm sure at 100 years of age doesn't look back fondly on this one.

wes-connors Make that one "Dead Man" walking. It's George Zucco (as Dr. Elwyn Clayton), practitioner of the Black Arts, who has just been slain, by his abel (okay, able) look-alike brother George Zucco (as Dr. Lloyd Clayton). The film's first mistake is not showing the murder; instead, it is explained, by "bad" Zucco's companion Dwight Frye (as Zolarr). As the vampire, Zucco keeps it all in the family by repeatedly going for the neck of pretty blonde niece Mary Carlisle (Gayle Clayton), quite like they did on "Dark Shadows". Ms. Carlisle's boyfriend, Nedrick Young (Dr. David Bently), is, initially, nonplussed.Story development is unoriginal; obviously, filmmakers expected everyone was familiar with the "Dracula" plot. This variation lets its possibilities slip away by leaving interesting new stones unturned. The graveyard scenes are atmospheric; possibly, they are enhanced by the low budget. The film's conclusion really fires things up; but, a lack of characterization and originality regarding the ending confrontation is a damper. The cast and crew perform well, under the circumstances.**** Dead Men Walk (2/10/43) Sam Newfield ~ George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young, Dwight Frye

Neil Doyle Clearly a film to play the lower half of a double bill, DEAD MEN WALK is a low-budget entry in the horror genre defeated by its stilted dialog and contrived situations. It's painfully dull and on the level of an Ed Wood film with amateurish acting from everyone except Zucco.Zucco plays a bad doctor who comes back as a vampire (with the assistance of DWIGHT FRYE) to take revenge on his good twin. As shown on TCM, the dialog is as murky as the photography and the print shown was badly in need of restoration.As good Dr. Clayton, Zucco declares that the latest death in the village "was not the cause of any known poison." He is soon visited by his "indestructible" brother who threatens to destroy him. He fires bullets at his evil brother to no avail. The poorly scripted story gets sillier as it goes on.Summing up: No better, but somewhat worse, than dozens of other low-budget horror flicks. This one, unfortunately, shows its "poverty row" origins too clearly. Too slow-paced for its own good despite its brief running time.