Beautiful nurse and narrator Frances Dee (as Betsy Connell) recalls when, "I Walked with a Zombie." She is hired by Caribbean plantation owner Tom Conway (as Paul Holland) to take care of his sick wife Christine Gordon (as Jessica).
This is my 2nd time trying to find merit in this movie. I'm a big noir, Torneur, and b/w fan.
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE stars Tom Conway as Paul Holland, a man whose wife Jessica (Christine Gordon) is either suffering from a rare, tropical illness, or has been turned into a zombie. Set in the West Indies, voodoo could very well be to blame.
The secret history of Hollywood podcast having ignited an interest in Val Lewton's work within me, I pressed on from a slightly underwhelming experience with "Cat People" to watch "I walked with a Zombie" - which I did like better.Betsy (Frances Dee) a young Canadian nurse, heads to a Caribbean island to look after the wife (Christine Gordon) of the owner of a plantation Paul Holland (Tom Conway).
Frances Dee portrays "Betsy Connell" a nurse hired to travel to a Caribbean island to care for the catatonic wife of a local plantation owner. Once there, she does her best for the poor woman as she slowly falls in love with the husband "Paul Holland" (Tom Conway).
Val Lewton produced this horror film(directed by Jacques Tourneur) that stars Frances Dee as Betsy, a Canadian nurse who goes to the West Indies at a sugar plantation to care for the invalid wife of the plantation manager Paul Holland(played by Tom Conway) She has fallen into a catatonic state, but mysteriously walks at night, and is followed by Betsy. Rumor has it that the wife,(Jessica) was in love with Paul's half-brother Wesley(played by James Ellison).
Canadian nurse Betsy Connell arrives on a ship to the West Indies. She has been hired to care for Jessica, the wife of plantation owner Paul Holland.
I walked with a Zombie was, if I recall correctly, my first proper horror movie (not counting monster films such as King Kong, etc). I was aged 10 or 11 and I talked my parents into letting me stay up late and watch it on TV (part of the BBC's wonderful Horror Double Bill season, happy days!
When a Canadian nurse (Frances Dee) arrives in the Caribbean to take care of the ailing mute wife of plantation owner Tom Conway, she finds more than she bargained for thanks to the surrounding natives, Conway's mysterious brother (James Ellison) and secret-carrying mother (Edith Barrett). The ailing wife allegedly was guilty of adultery and the sinful actions lead to her physical state in a way that is revealed in a surprising and spooky manner.
