King of the Zombies

King of the Zombies is a 1941 film about three stranded travelers on an island, who find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.
 * ''Directed by Jean Yarbrough. Written by Edmond Kelso.

Blood-chilling revelations of the weird cult that practices its black magic in the impenetrable jungles of Central America! (taglines)

Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson

 * [hearing voodoo drums] It ain't Gene Krupa!


 * [Squeezing between two hypnotized "zombies"] Move over boys, I'm one of the gang now.


 * If there's one thing that I wouldn't want to be twice, zombies is both of 'em.

Dialogue

 * Samantha, the Maid: What you doing in that lineup?
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Don't bother me woman. Can't you see I is a has-been?
 * Samantha, the Maid: A zombie?
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Nothing else but. And don't ask me my name, 'cuz I don't know. I don't know nothing.
 * Samantha, the Maid: You ain't no zombie, 'cuz zombies can't talk.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Can I help it 'cuz I'm loquacious?


 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Eating the food set out for the zombies] This being a zombie sure is a drawback. Where's the salt?
 * Samantha, the Maid: You eats that the way it is and likes it. Zombies ain't supposed to use salt.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha brings Jeff the salt] I thought you said...
 * Samantha, the Maid: I changed my mind.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha continues to pour the salt] That's more like it. Take it easy there woman, I ain't no herring!
 * Samantha, the Maid: Now eat.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha keeps pouring the salt] Whew! What is you trying to do? Poison me?


 * Bill Summers: It's the same drums we heard the other night. Voodoo drums! Come on, we've got to find him!
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Oh Mr. Billy, we found enough for one day!


 * Bill Summers: [about to chase off after another eerie happening] Come on!
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: I cain't, my foot done took to root.


 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [after Dr. Sangre has shown Bill Summers and James McCarthy to their sleeping quarters] Excuse me, Mr. Doctor, but didn't you forget something?
 * Dr. Miklos Sangre: I think not.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: What about me?
 * Dr. Miklos Sangre: You will be taken care of.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: That's what I'm afraid of.
 * Dr. Miklos Sangre: In the servants' quarters. Momba will show you the way.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [scared] Momba? That goblin?
 * Dr. Miklos Sangre: He won't hurt you -- if he likes you.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: And if he don't?
 * Dr. Miklos Sangre: [shrugs] Well.
 * Bill Summers: It'll be all right, Jeff.
 * Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: For who?

Taglines

 * HUMAN SACRIFICES! SAVAGE TORTURE! VOODOO RITES!
 * Blood-chilling revelations of the weird cult that practices its black magic in the impenetrable jungles of Central America!
 * ARE YOU A ZOMBIE? If you can sit through this spine-tingling carnival of shrieks and howls without getting the thrill of a lifetime...you must belong to the living dead!
 * Don't miss this shock-crammed punch-packed double thriller-chiller terror program!

Cast

 * Dick Purcell — James "Mac" McCarthy
 * Joan Woodbury — Barbara Winslow
 * Mantan Moreland — Jefferson "Jeff" Jackson
 * Henry Victor — Dr. Miklos Sangre