The Devil's Messenger

1961 Swedish film
  • 1961 (1961)
Running time
72 minutesCountriesSweden
United StatesLanguageEnglish

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] 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]

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

External links

  • The Devil's Messenger at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • The Devil's Messenger at AllMovie
  • The Devil's Messenger at the TCM Movie Database
  • The Devil's Messenger at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  • The Devil's Messenger is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Herbert L. Strock


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