Revenge of the Zombies is a 1943 Horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Steve Sekely, starring John Carradine

John Carradine

John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history...

 and Gale Storm

Gale Storm

Gale Storm was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.-Early life:...

. Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann (John Carradine), is a mad scientist working to create a race of living dead warriors for the Third Reich.

Plot

After the death of Max's (John Carradine) wife Lila (Gale Storm) he holds a funeral for her, but it's then we see he has also turned her into a zombie . He is amazed when Lila show signs of free will and challenges Max for control. In the excitement Dr. Keating (Barry Macollum) goes missing after entering a tomb which should not have been entered.

During dinner Scott Warrington (Mauritz Hugo) finds a radio in Max's cabinet, and figures out that it communicates to Hitler. Max learns of this and gags and ties up Scott. Lazarus, Max's right hand man, finds a gun. While making soup with Rosella (Sybil Lewis) Jeff (Mantan Moreland) finds Warrington gagged in a closet, and he tells Jeff about the situation. Max discovers this and tries to flee the swamp. Lila and the hordes of zombies pursue Max, and both Max and Lila end up sinking into quicksand.

Cast

• John Carradine
  John Carradine
  John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history...
  
   as Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann
• Gale Storm
  Gale Storm
  Gale Storm was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.-Early life:...
  
   as Jennifer Rand
• Robert Lowery
  Robert Lowery (actor)
  Robert Lowery was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in over seventy films.-Early life:...
  
   as Larry Adams
• Bob Steele
  Bob Steele (actor)
  Bob Steele was an American actor. He was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family. After years of touring, the family settled down in Hollywood in the late 1910s, where his father, Robert N...
  
   as United States agent posing as Sheriff
• Mantan Moreland
  Mantan Moreland
  Mantan Moreland was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s.-Career:Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Moreland began acting by the time he was an adolescent, reportedly running away to join the circus...
  
   as Jeff
• Veda Ann Borg
  Veda Ann Borg
  Veda Ann Borg was an American film actress.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Borg was the daughter of Gottfried Borg, a Swedish immigrant and Minna Noble. She became a model in 1936 before winning a contract at Paramount Pictures. A car crash in 1939 necessitated drastic reconstruction of her face by...
  
   as Lila von Altermann
• Barry Macollum as Dr. Harvey Keating
• Mauritz Hugo as Scott Warrington
• Madame Sul-Te-Wan
  Madame Sul-Te-Wan
  Madame Sul-Te-Wan was an American actress. The daughter of freed slaves, she began her career in entertainment touring the east coast with various theatrical companies and moved to California to become a member of the fledgling film community...
  
   as Mammy Beulah, the housekeeper
• James Baskett
  James Baskett
  James Baskett was an American actor known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, singing the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South, for which he was given an Honorary Academy Award, making him the first male performer of African descent to receive an Oscar.- Career...
  
   as Lazarus
• Sybil Lewis as Rosella
• Robert Cherry as Pete, a Zombie
• Franklyn Farnum
  Franklyn Farnum
  William Smith , better known by his screen name, Franklyn Farnum, was an American character actor and Hollywood extra who appeared in 433 productions between the years 1916 and 1961....
  
  as Zombie