unexpectedly leaves hospital and, arming himself, goes to Zurich's lab. He reveals that Zurich is a creature with a "white" head attached to a "brown" Jivaro body. Jonathan raises his revolver to his head to kill himself so that his soul will escape from his skull, thus breaking the curse. Jonathan and Zutai grapple for the pistol. Jeff bursts in and during a fight flings Zutai into an open flame. Zutai explodes. But Jonathan has Zutai's curare-laden stiletto and tells Jeff to poke Zurich with it. Jeff does and Zurich dies. Jonathan decapitates Zurich, forever ending the curse. Zurich's body turns to dust ... but leaves behind the intact fourth skull. Cast Eduard Franz as Jonathan Drake Valerie French as Alison Drake Grant Richards as Lt. Jeff Rowan Henry Daniell as Dr. Emil Zurich Lumsden Hare as Rogers Howard Wendell as Dr. George Bradford Paul Wexler as Zutai Paul Cavanaugh as Kenneth Drake Frank Gerstle as Lee Coulter Production The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake was produced at Paramount Sunset Studios during early November 1958. It was copyrighted by Vogue Pictures on 8 May 1959. The poster for the US theatrical release is headlined "Written, Produced and Directed To Scare The Daylights Out Of You!" Distribution In the US, the film was shown on its opening day, May 15, 1959 at, for example, the Kingston Federal Theater in Kingston NY on a double feature with Invisible Invaders. It played later in 1959, as a "new first showing", at the Monroe Theater in the Chicago Loop starting on September 3 of that year. The film was on the drive-in theater circuit a few years later. It ran at the Hi-Way Drive-In Theater in Ft. Lauderdale FL on August 2, 1963 as part of what was advertised as "4 Horror Hits 4" and "The Fright Show of the Year". The complete program was, in order, The Screaming Skull (1958), The Brain Eaters (1959), The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, and Brainwashed (1960). For its UK theatrical release, The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake was assigned an X-certificate by the British Board of Film Censors on 23 April 1959. At the time, this meant that the film could not be shown to anyone under the age of 16. Following its theatrical release, the film went into US television syndication as part of United Artist Association's 58-title "Science Fiction-Horror-Monster Features" package, which was released