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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