Directed by:
Jacques TourneurCinematography:
J. Roy HuntComposer:
Roy WebbCast:
James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon, Theresa Harris, Sir Lancelot, Darby Jones, Jeni Le Gon, Richard Abrams (more)VOD (1)
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Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. When she takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island, a young nurse (Frances Dee) finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and witch doctors have the power to summon the living dead. Sugarcane swaying in a moonlit field, the hypnotic beat of voodoo drums, the relentless pull toward death—the otherworldly atmosphere of this bold reimagining of "Jane Eyre" is as close as studio-era Hollywood ever came to pure dream-state surrealism. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![James Ellison](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/118/162118781_7aa610.jpg)
James Ellison
USA
Best movies:
Vivacious Lady (1938)
The Plainsman (1936)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
![Frances Dee](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/118/162118782_d40fcc.jpg)
Frances Dee
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Come and Get It (1936)
Little Women (1933)
![Tom Conway](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/400/400516_ca6eb1.jpg)
Tom Conway
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
![Edith Barrett](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/919/160919542_7a574f.gif)
Edith Barrett
USA
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Jane Eyre (1943)
![James Bell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/497/160497880_c345e9.jpg)
James Bell
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Brute Force (1947)
Christine Gordon
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
![Theresa Harris](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/919/160919552_fedb65.jpg)
Theresa Harris
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Jezebel (1938)
Out of the Past (1947)
Sir Lancelot
Best movies:
Brute Force (1947)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
![Darby Jones](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/919/160919780_6d03f9.gif)
Darby Jones
USA
Best movies:
A Day at the Races (1937)
Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Jeni Le Gon
USA
Best movies:
Easter Parade (1948)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
I Shot Jesse James (1949)
Richard Abrams
Best movies:
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Medium Cool (1969)
Doris Ake
USA
Best movies:
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Rita Christiani
UK
Best movies:
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
The Black Swan (1942)
![Vivian Dandridge](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/919/160919798_48ef52.jpg)
Vivian Dandridge
USA
Best movies:
King Kong (1933)
A Song Is Born (1948)
A Day at the Races (1937)
![Alan Edmiston](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/254/161254668_63912d.jpg)
Alan Edmiston
UK
Best movies:
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Hangover Square (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Kathleen Hartsfield
USA
Best movies:
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Norman Mayes
USA
Best movies:
Zombies on Broadway (1945)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
The Ghost Ship (1943)
Jieno Moxzer
Panama
Best movies:
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
![Clinton Rosemond](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/919/160919866_83bc63.jpg)
Clinton Rosemond
USA
Best movies:
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Golden Boy (1939)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Arthur Walker
Best movies:
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)