The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn.
Plot[]
Jonathan Drake, a university professor specializing in the occult, is summoned to the home of his brother, Kenneth Drake, when a family curse threatens Kenneth's life. Jonathan Drake arrives too late to save his brother from a violent death and subsequent decapitation before his burial. The curse is the work of Dr. Emil Zurich, a Swiss agent who was a member of Jonathan Drake's ancestor's exploration party two hundred years previously. Zurich was captured, thus forcing Captain Drake to lead a rescue party into the jungle. Drake's party massacres the tribe (save for the tribal witch doctor Zutai), only to find that Zurich has been beheaded. Zutai is assisting the miraculously ressurrected Zurich in his pursuit for revenge and supernatural destiny against Captain Drake's male descendants. Zurich and Zutai lay their plans to murder and behead Jonathan Drake, which will end the curse on the Drake family.