Wednesday 28 December 2016

97 Voodoo Man ( 1944 )

The  premise  of  this  was  very  promising- Bela  Lugosi, assisted  by  Zucco  and  Carradine,  keeping  a  harem  of  young  beauties ( most  of  whom  we've  met  before )  in  the  cellar  for  the  purpose  of  reviving  his  not-quite-dead  wife  through  voodoo - but the  end  product  is  sunk  by  low  production  values  and  a  campy  approach. The  meta-joke  at  the  end  falls  flat  on  its  arse.

Wanda  McKay  ( as  Betty  Benton )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Wanda  gets  top  billing  among  the  females  but it's  a  lacklustre  performance.

Louise  Currie  (  as  Stella  Saunders )
  
Sex :  Pawed  at  by  Carradine 

Death : Survives


Louise  gives  a  much  livelier  performance  as  the  heroine's  best  mate.

Ellen  Hall  (  as  Evelyn  Marlowe )

Sex : No

Death : Expires, presumably  permanently, when  Lugosi  perishes


Ellen  was  from  L.A.  and  had  a  reasonably  successful  career  as  a  B-movie  actress  in  the  forties. She  retired  in  1951. She  died  in  1999  aged  76.

Terry  Walker  ( as  Alice )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


This  tiny  part  was  Terry's  last  film  appearance.

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