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Capt. Labesch (Rafael Bertrand) travels to a remote island to whip its drunken police force into shape and is horrified to learn of a powerful voodoo death cult. He's disturbed by their sacrifices to a shadowy priest named Damballah (Boris Karloff). But local landowner Carl Van Molder (also Karloff) is fascinated by the rites. When Van Molder's niece, Annabella (Julissa), is kidnapped, Labesch teams up with a local policeman (Carlos East) to rescue her and uncover Damballah's true identity.
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00:00During many centuries in various parts of the world,
00:26various diabolical rites and ceremonies have been practiced in homage to various sinister gods,
00:32who are believed to have many supernatural powers.
00:36These rites are generally known as voodoo,
00:39which consists mostly of black magic and the cult of death.
00:43The practice of voodoo invokes the supreme god,
00:47Baron Samedi, who is supposed to be able to revive the dead.
00:52This rite is presided over by Damballa,
00:56a kind of supreme priest to whom the witches or followers dedicate their diabolical ceremonies.
01:02The same as the snake priestess.
01:05The snake priestess.
01:09Hamzi.
01:11The snake priestess.
01:13The snake priestess.
01:16The snake priestess.
01:17He's almost dead.
01:26The snake priestess.
01:59Unscrupulous adventurers take advantage of these superstitions to put docile native girls under their power, transforming them into zombies so they will submit to their primitive instincts.
02:12There are many existing opinions about the living death.
02:16The truth is that many strange and horrible stories are told, like the one that happened in Courbet to Captain Pierre Labiche.
02:29Now they go.
02:32Hold, hold, hold, hold.
02:33Hold, hold.
02:48Have a new surprise.
02:50Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
03:20Oh, my God.
03:50Oh, my God.
04:20Oh, my God.
04:50Oh, my God.
05:20Oh, my God.
05:50Oh, my God.
06:20Oh, my God.
06:50Oh, my God.
06:52Oh, my God.
06:54Oh, my God.
06:56Oh, my God.
06:58Oh, my God.
07:00Oh, my God.
07:02Oh, my God.
07:04Oh, my God.
07:07It's a well-founded organization that will change the world.
07:10And how do you say it's called?
07:12The International Anti-Saloon League.
07:15Oh, quite right.
07:17Well, here we are.
07:22I'll call a lieutenant.
07:23I shall attend to that myself.
07:29I'll go along with you to the plantation later.
07:32How long will you be staying here?
07:33Long enough to clean up the police department.
07:38And re-established law and order.
07:54Sergeant!
07:56Yes, sir.
07:57I am Captain Labish, your new chief.
08:00Where is Lieutenant Wilhelm?
08:03Uh, uh, uh...
08:05Well?
08:07Deaf and dumb, huh?
08:09Never mind.
08:10I shall announce myself.
08:13Are these men prisoners?
08:15Uh, oui, uh...
08:16Prisoners, uh...
08:17Uh, here.
08:17Uh, here.
08:39Uh, here.
08:41My glass is empty.
08:48Thank you, Tony.
08:50And the pleasure is mine, Lieutenant.
08:58I'm sorry, sir.
09:01Thank you, Tony.
09:03And the pleasure is mine, Lieutenant.
09:10I'm sorry, sir.
09:11I didn't get word of your coming.
09:14That is quite obvious.
09:17I'm Captain Lavish.
09:20And of course, you are...
09:23Wilhelm.
09:24Yes, sir.
09:25At your service, sir.
09:27Your glass is empty.
09:29That won't be necessary.
09:31I never drink alcohol.
09:33Bravo!
09:55Captain Lavish.
09:57As a citizen of the Republic,
09:58I am shocked to find alcoholism rampant
10:01in the law enforcement agency itself.
10:04Alcoholism?
10:05Lieutenant Wilhelm, Mademoiselle Van Der Berg.
10:08Mademoiselle Van Der Berg is a temperance worker.
10:12What?
10:13Temperance, Lieutenant.
10:15The salvation of the world.
10:17Modern science has shown that alcohol is responsible
10:21for 99.2% of all the will sins.
10:2499.2%.
10:26Oh, I see that it's taken care of.
10:31I want you to come with me at once to the plantation of Carl van Mulder.
10:34I presume you know the man?
10:36Of course.
10:37He owns almost half the island.
10:39Mademoiselle Van Der Berg is his niece.
10:43She intends to stay with him while she is here.
10:46I see.
10:48Very good.
10:48But it's quite far from here.
10:50In that case, we should leave at once.
10:52Yes, sir.
11:11What's this, Wilhelm?
11:13It's a voodoo funeral, sir.
11:16Voodoo?
11:17I don't understand.
11:18What is this voodoo?
11:19Oh, it's a native superstition.
11:22They will bury their dead in a special place.
11:25Which is supposed to be protected by magic.
11:28And they'll keep a vigil for three days and three nights.
11:31Just to be sure.
11:32To be sure of what?
11:34Oh, to be sure that the bodies cannot be raised and made to walk at night.
11:40Forced to work in the field.
11:42Which I gather doesn't happen too often.
11:46Not too often.
11:49What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
11:50Did he frighten you?
11:51Huh?
11:52What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
11:53Did he frighten you?
11:54Huh?
11:55Captain.
11:56What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
11:57Did he frighten you?
11:58Huh?
11:59Captain.
12:00Sometimes even I get frightened by these people's eyes.
12:02What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
12:03What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
12:04What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
12:05Did he frighten you?
12:06Huh?
12:07Captain.
12:08What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
12:17What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
12:18What's the matter, Mademoiselle?
12:19Captain, sometimes even I get frightened by these people's eyes.
12:37In those eyes, you can guess all the cruelty of their diabolical ceremonies.
12:43Ceremonies produced by sinister witches and under the guidance of the mysterious Damballa.
12:48Legends say they even produce human sacrifices.
12:52They gladly go to their deaths with the hope that they'll be accepted into the legion of the zombies,
12:57winning the favor of their insomity, and this way, enjoy the privilege of the living death.
13:18So, as a small part of the park, let's meet the men in the middle of their house from infinity to a public side.
13:24If you see the men, the men who live in the middle of their eyes,
13:28hold your bubbles down the sky, and this way, is not fun.
13:34The people who live in the middle of their lives are in the past.
13:38It wouldn't be strange that now they'd bury one of their victims.
14:08Welcome, Lieutenant. It's been a long time since I've seen you.
14:16Oh, and you have guests, I see. How charming. You do come in.
14:28Over Mulder, may I present...
14:30Uncle Karl, don't you remember me? I'm Annabella.
14:34Not, not little Annabella Vandenberg.
14:37All grown up, as you could see.
14:39Well, now, how many years has it been?
14:41Oh, now, please, don't mention that.
14:43And this is my superior from the mainland.
14:47Captain Labiche, at your service, sir.
14:50Captain, I'm honored. Please sit down, all of you.
14:53Karl, some refreshments for our guests.
15:07This is indeed a surprise, my dear. What brings you so far from home?
15:24I've come on behalf of the great cause, to ask for your help.
15:28Well, if I can help you, of course I will. What is the cause?
15:32To make a better world.
15:34Well, of course, in a cause like that, I'm completely at your service, sir.
15:54How will it be accomplished?
15:56By destroying the demon. Drink.
16:00Oh.
16:02This is delicious, Uncle Karl. What is it?
16:22Just a local beverage.
16:24Made from bananas, I believe.
16:28And sugar.
16:31Captain Labiche.
16:34You have a fine young officer here, and you tell it, Wilhelm.
16:39And a more peaceful island than Kowai would be very difficult to find.
16:44So what brings you here?
16:47Not peace, Herr van Mulder.
16:50The sword.
16:51I'm a man of the sword.
16:55It's said that he who lives by the sword must have a strong arm, Herr van Mulder.
17:01What are you two talking about?
17:03They're having some jokes among themselves, Mademoiselle.
17:06The humor seems rather grim.
17:09You see, Mademoiselle, your uncle suspect I have come to this island to make trouble.
17:15This is not correct.
17:17Trouble is already here.
17:19And I have come to stamp it out.
17:23To bring law.
17:24Whose law, Captain?
17:26The people of Kowai have had their own for centuries and...
17:31Pagan superstition.
17:32Witchcraft.
17:34Magic.
17:35Ritual mutilation.
17:37Human sacrifice.
17:39And other practices of a sort.
17:42Which cannot be discussed in the presence of a young lady.
17:48Your pardon, Mademoiselle.
17:50What sort of practices?
17:52Well, the young men and the young women get together and...
17:56We'll help.
17:57Yes, sir.
17:58You see, Herr van Mulder.
18:00To me, the law is a simple matter.
18:02There is right and there is wrong.
18:05And you are constantly amazed...
18:11At the number of people who fail to recognize your simple formula.
18:20Herr van Mulder.
18:22You have a great influence here.
18:24I had hoped...
18:26That we could be allies, you and I.
18:33Perhaps we can, Captain.
18:35Perhaps we can.
18:37Fine.
18:41Come into my laboratory.
18:43I'd like to show you something.
18:54Uncle Carl.
18:57Uncle Carl.
18:58I had no idea you were a scientist.
19:00All my interests are many embedded, my dear.
19:03For years, I've been making a study of the culture of the people of Korvai.
19:09How do you like this little fellow?
19:13Did you know that...
19:15When the Egyptians were raising the pyramids...
19:18The people here on this little island...
19:21For raising something much more important, though perhaps less tangible.
19:27And what would that be?
19:29A power.
19:31A vast, untapped power that has laid dormant for thousands of years.
19:37Just waiting the key to unlock its secrets.
19:40Oh, I see.
19:42And where is this power to be found?
19:45In the human mind.
19:49And the key?
19:52Captain LaBiche.
19:56You see that tiny mirror and the weight attached?
19:58Mm-hmm.
20:00Do you believe that...
20:02By the mere concentration of human will...
20:06That could be made to move?
20:09That?
20:12Of course not.
20:13What nonsense.
20:15Of course, for you then, it would be impossible.
20:17Impossible.
20:19But I believe.
20:21Therefore...
20:22...
20:43...
20:52And that is your vast and top power.
21:18One man alone did not build the pyramids.
21:23You saw the tiny movement of that mirror caused by the concentration of one human mind.
21:31Think what would be done by the concentration of thousands of minds, all stronger than mine, upon one single object.
21:41Oh, we would indeed have a new world.
21:44No more war, no pestilence, no hunger, famine, disease.
21:50Perhaps even no more death.
21:56Ah, bah, parlatrix.
21:58I am disappointed you think me so gullible, Herr von Mulder.
22:02My life's work, her parlatrix.
22:11Kalea, this gentleman would like a more impressive demonstration.
22:17Kalea, this gentleman would like to see you if you can hear me.
22:31Tremissé, tremissé, tremissé.
22:46Chimbabwe.
22:48Benferi calendizó calendo.
23:01Capri Labiche, I must warn you that if you insist on interfering with the customs and
23:30traditions of these people, it will be very dangerous, not only for you, but for others.
23:38In the name of humanity, I beg you to go back to the mainland at once and leave this forgotten
23:45island in peace.
23:49I am the law, Herr van Möller, and the law can forget no one.
24:00Good day, Mademoiselle Vandenberg.
24:03I hope we meet again under more amusing circumstances.
24:30Good day.
24:36Good day.
24:45Good day.
24:50Have you got one?
24:53Let's go.
25:23You know that Damballa does not like this kind of thing.
25:48No.
25:52No, don't do it.
25:53Please.
26:08Damballa, Damballa.
26:11Who is this Damballa?
26:13Hogwash.
26:14Oh, the religious symbol.
26:16Their leader.
26:17You're not important.
26:18Witchcraft.
26:21Living there.
26:22People sacrificing ceremonial rites.
26:25And you say it's not important?
26:27Look, Captain, this is not Paris.
26:29You'd do well to respect these people's customs.
26:31That was the first thing I learned when I got here.
26:34What you didn't learn, Lieutenant, is how to cope with these fanatics.
26:38Now it's up to me.
26:39Tonight, we'll find the ceremonial site and surround it.
26:45Interfering with these people's religion is playing with fire.
26:49I'm used to it, monsieur.
26:51Make the necessary preparation.
26:53This way, Captain.
27:57I ordered you to do this work at once.
28:09Allez, get out!
28:11Allez!
28:18The only way to handle these people, Wilhelm.
28:21Now they know who gives the orders.
28:24I fear so, Capitaine Laviche.
28:27You know, sometimes I think you know more than you let on.
28:32And I love to cooperate.
28:35Are you sure you don't know who Dambala is?
28:39I'm sure.
28:41If I knew, I wouldn't tell you.
28:44We'll see about that.
28:47Place a guard of three men here.
28:49I'm sure.
29:04Tony, I think we're going to get very, very drunk tonight.
29:07Come on.
29:11All right.
29:13All right.
29:44It's human flesh because they've been cursed by Damballa.
30:14That's enough.
30:16I'll bring these people to their wits, no matter what it takes.
30:21I shall order a general curfew in this region
30:24until the leaders of this organization can be discovered and punished.
30:30Curfew? Over the entire island?
30:39Well, that's impossible.
30:41I quite agree.
30:43I have ridden the government in protest.
30:45But for the present, all I can do is carry out my orders.
30:48Of course.
30:51What do you think the people will do?
30:54Well, I don't know.
30:57It's not the police they're afraid of.
30:59It's the zombies.
31:02Zombies?
31:03Oh.
31:04Here are cowabye, but really.
31:08Well, they're afraid that they'll come down from the mountains.
31:12But what are these zombies?
31:15Oh, it's a voodoo superstition.
31:18They're supposed to be the walking dead,
31:20raised from their graves by magic
31:21and put to work in the cane fields, like slaves.
31:25Against the daemon,
31:27Dharams Amdi will be invoked to lead them.
31:30Lead them to what?
31:32Who knows?
31:34Dharams Amdi is the messiah of darkness.
31:38He will bring a whole new world.
31:41At least,
31:42that's what the natives say.
31:48Yeah, so they say.
31:50Well, this calls for a drink.
31:52Yes, Lieutenant.
31:54I'll join you in that.
32:01Annabella, you don't mind when your uncle drinks.
32:04Why this unfair discrimination against me?
32:07Uncle Carl may be forgiven because of his age.
32:10In his case, it serves a medicinal purpose.
32:12Mademoiselle, you are a fanatic.
32:18I've never seen a zombie,
32:19but I'm starting to feel like one.
32:22This is pretty good stuff.
32:24Uncle Carl,
32:25what would it take to invoke this baron samedi?
32:28It says here,
32:30an ultimate act of horror.
32:31The tradition says that
32:36Dambala,
32:38who is the servant of Baron Samedi,
32:41must produce a human sacrifice.
32:45then Baron Samedi will appear.
32:49Myr,
32:49myr,
32:50myr,
32:50the new,
32:50the new,
32:51Cling saw.
32:52Oh.
32:53I have guests.
32:55Excuse me.
32:57I must speak to you,
32:59myr,
32:59most urgent.
33:01I'm sorry.
33:05Kling saw is my overseer.
33:10Apparently there's trouble in the cane fields.
33:12I'll be back.
33:13This business with the police,
33:21the curfew.
33:22I know about that.
33:24It could only lead to one thing.
33:26The workers are becoming restless.
33:29They can feel the danger in the air.
33:31Then do what you must do,
33:33Kling saw.
33:35But don't go too far.
33:36I know about that.
33:53Wow.
33:56Wow.
34:06Don't touch it.
34:08It is Serta.
34:10Sneaker the evil spirit.
34:12They are trying to throw a curse on you.
34:15I shall put a stop to this.
34:20I shall put a stop to this.
34:24I shall put a stop to this.
34:27I shall put a stop to this.
34:36As of today, we start patrolling the whole area.
34:42Arrest anyone who looks suspicious.
34:44Get your men together.
34:50Don't just stand there.
34:52Where the hell is Wilhelm?
35:06Nothing.
35:26Everyone stayed indoors.
35:28If at least we could get just one of them.
35:36What is it?
35:38The drums, Captain.
35:40The drums.
35:41You have been out here among these savages too long.
36:06Why not all Muss I protect?
36:08The drums does it Roar.
36:11The drums do russs to the sticky nation.
36:13If it was this movement let's call them overform.
36:16Let's play fierce.
36:18The drums and the rupt начал this movement.
36:20Let's play in Photoshop.
36:22Let's play out, let's play a soit deck fuller,
36:23Brildo.
36:24Let's play in un lideraziness.
36:25I'll put them out here.
36:27Now if I throw out this corner box,
36:29let's play in beat that section.
36:31Please moth.
36:32See.
36:33Let's play a break in.
36:34I live in there.
37:04I live in there.
37:34I live in there.
38:04I live in there.
38:22Sleep.
38:24Offer your dreams to Damballa.
38:26Sleep.
38:28Offer your dreams to Damballa.
38:34Sleep.
38:36Offer your dreams to Damballa.
38:40Sleep.
38:42Damballa.
38:48Sleep.
38:50Sleep.
38:52Sleep.
45:55So, D'Ambala's little word is falling apart.
45:58Hattling sure, I'm sure we can do business.
46:01As you say, we both want something.
46:31In the colonial government will be in the colonial government will be in the colonial government will be sufficient to arrange some...
46:35It is tonight.
46:36Tonight?
46:38What is tonight?
46:40The invocation of the invocation, there will be a human sacrifice, there will be a human sacrifice, there will be a human sacrifice.
46:48If you do exactly as I tell you, if you do exactly as I tell you, you will be able to capture the voodoo leaders in an act of murder.
47:02Well, what is your plan?
47:11Go on. I find all this very interesting.
47:14Yes, isn't it?
47:15I never realized Uncle Carr was such a scientist.
47:18Yes, fascinating.
47:20For instance, here he tells about the snake bite
47:24and the drug that's used for its antidote.
47:26Charming.
47:27He believes that the combination of the two slows down the metabolism.
47:32Metabolism.
47:32Yes, beautiful.
47:34And the heartbeat.
47:36So much that the person appears to be dead.
47:43But he isn't.
47:46Well, the sun seems to be about gone.
47:49It's getting rather dark.
47:51He isn't dead.
47:52Go on. I'm listening.
47:55Well, Uncle Carl thinks that
47:59this technique can be used for surgery.
48:02On the heart or brain.
48:04On the heart.
48:06The heart's very important.
48:08Yes, but there's a problem here.
48:16Oh, no.
48:16No.
48:22The drug keeps the body alive.
48:25But the brain is destroyed by the action of the venom.
48:28So the victim becomes a sort of walking vegetable.
48:39Excuse me.
48:41Well, anyway, here.
48:42You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.
48:49Go on.
48:51Then what?
48:53Well, he wants to find a way to avoid this effect.
48:58What effect?
48:59What effect?
49:01The effect?
49:09Mademoiselle.
49:10The fire of the sunset in your eyes is consuming my heart.
49:15Lieutenant.
49:16Are you making advances toward me?
49:18I love you, Annabelle.
49:21Yes?
49:22What do you want?
49:24Orders, Lieutenant.
49:25From Captain Labiche.
49:27Well, you can tell Captain Labiche to...
49:30The police have deserted.
49:32The captain wants you to come with me to headquarters.
49:36I see.
49:38Wait a minute.
49:39Andrew, will you come back soon?
49:44Very soon, darling.
49:46Now, only death could keep me from you.
50:00Ah!
50:00Ah!
50:09What?
50:17Ah!
50:26Ah!
50:36Ah!
50:36Ah!
50:37Ah!
50:37Ah!
50:38Ah!
50:38Ah!
50:39Ah!
50:39murder even you with him cannot condom human sacrifice as part of any religious
51:09right of course not i agree that it should be prevented good then i have your loyalty
51:18but are you sure that this man clingshaw can be trusted i trust no one of course and our police
51:25force has deserted us in mass does that surprise you it's neither here nor there but now we are all
51:34lieutenant are you suggesting that we carry out this uh raid by ourselves precisely precisely
51:43but we have an ally that's worth 50 men
51:49high explosives bullets may not kill these zombies or whatever they are
51:56but i'm sure blowing them to bits will be most effective
52:10so
52:29so
52:38So
53:38Damn traitor.
53:59Traitor.
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