QUICKIE: Ostracised explorer-scientist discovers the secret to turning people into zombies and uses it to make people do his will and blackmails his love to marry him in exchange for not zombifying her true love. The woman flips it in the end and the dude is destroyed by his own zombies.
PLOT: After the war an expedition of representatives from Allied countries is sent to Cambodia to find and destroy the Secret of the Zombies. The group includes Armand Louque (Dean Jagger) and Claire (Dorothy Stone) who Armand falls in love with. Many accidents result in the natives refusing to work and the expedition returns to Pnom Penh. Armand finds a clue which he had overlooked before and returns to Angkor against orders. Eventually Armand gains the knowledge of how to make zombies out of people, and gets hundreds to do his bidding. Eventually he returns to make Claire his bride which brings about his downfall.
SUMMARY: How cool is that to just be able to look at somebody and they become your zombie servant? In the begining it seems to take some magical incense, but later it's just hovering eyeballs on the screen that zombify people.
A meek scientist who's put off by everyone discovers the power to make everyone do his bidding and becomes a power hungry lunatic. Zombifying hundreds of people in order to get his way. In the end he gets to marry his love, but only if he gives up his power to zombify people. He relinquishes the power, his zombies awaken, get pissed and come to kill him, which they do. The moral of the story is again "crime doesn't pay". It's a decent story with the predictable "you should be more ruthless" comments leading to him becoming ruthless and everyone is soooooo surprised by it.
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