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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.1 2

Battle it

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

Darby Jones plays the zombie Kalaga, after playing Carrefour in I Walked with a Zombie1 2

The island has the same name as in the 1943 film, and the calypso singer Sir Lancelot also returns1 2

Bela Lugosi plays the scientist1 2

The plot has two press agents hunting for a real zombie to open a New York nightclub1 2

It made a profit, and RKO reunited the cast for another comedy in 19461 2

Sources

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CarrefourI Walked with a Zombie (1943)

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Plague victims of The Last Man on EarthThe Last Man on Earth (1964)

Corpses of Invisible InvadersInvisible Invaders (1959)