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Kalaga and the zombies of Zombies on Broadway

Also called: Kalaga
FilmOtherScience gone wrong1900 to 1967

Zombies on Broadway is an RKO comedy that reuses the island, and two of the performers, of I Walked with a Zombie. Its zombies are made by a scientist's serum. Zombie historian Peter Dendle did not find its comedy duo funny.12

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First appeared
1945
Released 1945
Source work
Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Gordon Douglas (RKO)
Made in
USA
What causes it
Science gone wrong
A scientist on the island of San Sebastian makes zombies with a secret serum.
How you become one
A person is given the scientist's formula and falls under its spell.

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1945

Released 1945

field notes

What the sources say

1

Darby Jones plays the zombie Kalaga, after playing Carrefour in I Walked with a Zombie12

2

The island has the same name as in the 1943 film, and the calypso singer Sir Lancelot also returns12

3

Bela Lugosi plays the scientist12

4

The plot has two press agents hunting for a real zombie to open a New York nightclub12

5

It made a profit, and RKO reunited the cast for another comedy in 194612

Sources

  1. Zombies on Broadway - Wikipedia
  2. I Walked with a Zombie - Wikipedia

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Same era: 1900 to 1967

Legendre's zombiesWhite Zombie (1932)The resurrected dead of Plan 9Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)CarrefourI Walked with a Zombie (1943)Cornish zombies of The Plague of the ZombiesThe Plague of the Zombies (1966)Plague victims of The Last Man on EarthThe Last Man on Earth (1964)Corpses of Invisible InvadersInvisible Invaders (1959)