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Director
  
Edward L. Cahn

Music director
  
Paul Dunlap

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Horror, Mystery

Producer
  
Robert E. Kent

Writer
  
Orville H. Hampton

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
1959 (1959)

Cast
  
Eduard Franz
(Jonathan Drake),
Henry Daniell
(Dr. Emil Zurich),
Valerie French
(Alison Drake),
Grant Richards
(Lt. Jeff Rowan),
Lumsden Hare
(Rogers),
Frank Gerstle
(Lee Coulter)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
The Grudge 2

Tagline
  
Written, Produced, And Directed To Scare The Daylights Out Of You!

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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 American black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E. Kent on contract for distribution by United Artists.

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Plot

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Jonathan Drake (Eduard Franz), a university professor specializing in the occult, is summoned to the home of his brother, Kenneth Drake (Paul Cavanagh), when a family curse threatens Kenneth's life. Jonathan Drake arrives too late to save his brother from a violent death and subsequent decapitation before his burial. The curse is the work of Dr. Emil Zurich (Henry Daniell), a Swiss agent who was a member of Jonathan Drake's ancestor's exploration party two hundred years previously. Zurich was captured, thus forcing Captain Drake to lead a rescue party into the jungle: Drake's party massacred the tribe (save for the tribal witch doctor Zutai (Paul Wexler), only to find that Zurich has been beheaded. Zutai, now a zombie with his mouth sewn shut in the manner of a shrunken head, is assisting the miraculously resurrected Zurich in his pursuit for revenge and supernatural destiny against Captain Drake's male descendants. Zurich and Zutai lay their plans to murder and behead Jonathan Drake, which will end the curse on the Drake family.

Cast


  • Henry Daniell as Dr. Emil Zurich
  • Eduard Franz as Jonathan Drake
  • Valerie French as Alison Drake
  • Grant Richards as Lt. Rowan
  • Lumsden Hare as Rogers
  • Frank Gerstle as Coulter
  • Paul Wexler as Zutai
  • Howard Wendell as Dr. Bradford
  • Paul Cavanagh as Kenneth Drake

    • Reception

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  • In The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, pop academic Peter Dendle sees Zurich as a metaphor for the "awkward blend of native Indian and European" and Zutai as "a walking parable of the silenced and subservient New World slave".
  • Wheeler Winston Dixon, in A History of Horror, said, "What sets Four Skulls apart is Cahn's absolute seriousness in the film's execution."

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    References

    The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake Wikipedia
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