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Monday, 16 December 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
QUICK REVIEW: STRANGE GOINGS ON: HAMMER FILMS 'THE WITCHES' 'THE DEVIL'S OWN' (1967)
QUICK REVIEW: THE WITCHES / THE DEVIL'S OWN: HAMMER FILMS (1967)
CAST:
Joan Fontaine (Gwen
Mayfield), Kay Walsh (Stephanie Bax), Alec McCowen (Alan Bax), Ingrid
Brett (Linda Rigg), Martin Stephens (Ronnie Dowsett), Gwen
Ffangcorn-Davies (Granny Rigg), John Collin (Dowsett),
Leonard Rossiter (Dr Wallis), Michele Dotrice (Valerie Creek), Duncan
Lamont (Bob Curd), Carmel McSharry (Mrs Dowsett), Ann Bell (Sally
Benson)
PRODUCTION:
Director – Cyril
Frankel, Screenplay – Nigel Kneale, Based on the Novel The Devil’s Own
by Peter Curtis [Norah Lofts], Producer – Anthony Nelson Keys,
Photography – Arthur Grant, Music – Richard Rodney Bennett, Musical
Supervisor – Philip Martell, Makeup – George Partleton, Production
Design – Bernard Robinson. Production Company – Seven Arts/Hammer
Films. UK. 1966.
SYNOPSIS:
Recovering from a
nervous breakdown after being attacked during a native uprising at a
mission school in Africa, Gwen Mayfield accepts a job as teacher in the
sleepy English country village of Heddaby. She finds strange things
happening around the village. Two of her pupils, teenagers Linda Rigg
and Ronnie Dowsett, are attracted to one another but everybody seeks to
keep them apart. Ronnie then has a mysterious accident and Gwen
afterwards finds a voodoo doll with pins poked into it. Her insistence
on trying to dig into what is happening uncovers evidence that Ronnie’s
accident and other deaths may be being caused by witchcraft.
GALLERY AND FULL REVIEW: HERE
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