The Devil's Messenger
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Devil's Messenger
| image = The-devils-messenger-movie-poster-md.jpg
| caption =
| director = Herbert L. Strock
| producer = Kenneth Herts, Gustaf Unger
| writer = Leo Guild
| starring = Lon Chaney Jr.
Karen Kadler
Michael Hinn
John Crawford
Ralph Brown
Inga Botorp
| music = Alfred Gwynn
| cinematography = William G. Troiano
| editing = Carl-Olov Skeppstedt
Lennart Wallén
| distributor = Herts-Lion International Corp.
| released = {{Film date|1961}}
| runtime = 72 minutes
| country = Sweden
United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Devil's Messenger is a 1961 anthology horror film combining 3 episodes of the 1959 B&W Swedish television series 13 Demon Street (which was never broadcast in the USA) with some new scenes featuring Lon Chaney Jr., Karen Kadler and John Crawford.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} This "feature version" of the series is the closest the U.S. came to seeing the TV series (although the entire series is now available on DVD in the territory).{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
Plot summary
The film includes stories about a 50,000-year-old woman found frozen in an ice field, a man's death foretold in dreams, and Satan's plans to blow up the Earth with atomic weapons.
Cast
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Satan (as Lon Chaney)
- Karen Kadler as Satanya
- Michael Hinn as John Radian
- Ralph Brown as Charlie (archive footage)
- John Crawford as Donald Powell (archive footage)
- Bert Johnson as (archive footage)
- Frank Taylor as Dr. Ben Seastrom (archive footage) (as Bert Johnson)
- Chalmers Goodlin as Dr. Hume (archive footage)
- Gunnel Broström as Madame Germaine (archive footage) (as Gunnel Brostrom)
- Sara Harts as Angelica - Frozen Girl (archive footage) (as Tammy Newmara)
- Jan Blomberg as J. D. Younger
- Inga Botorp as Dixie (archive footage) (as Ingrid Bedoya)
- Eve Hossner as Girl in Photograph (archive footage)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0054807|The Devil's Messenger}}
- {{TCMDb title|id=73011}}
- {{AFI film|id=19851|title=The Devil's Messenger}}
- {{Internet Archive film|id=The_Devils_Messenger|name=The Devil's Messenger}}
{{Herbert L. Strock}}
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Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American supernatural horror films
Category:American horror anthology films
Category:Films directed by Herbert L. Strock
Category:Films based on television series
Category:1960s English-language films
Category:English-language horror films
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