Night of the Demon (1957)
Night of the Demon (1957)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Dana Andrews
Dr. John Holden
Peggy Cummins
Joanna Harrington
Niall MacGinnis
Dr. Julian Karswell
Maurice Denham
Professor Henry Harrington
Athene Seyler
Mrs. Karswell
Liam Redmond
Professor Mark O'Brien
Reginald Beckwith
Mr. Meek
Ewan Roberts
Lloyd Williamson
Peter Elliott
Professor K.T. Kumar
Rosamund Greenwood
Mrs. Meek
Brian Wilde
Rand Hobart
Richard Leech
Inspector Mottrarn
Lloyd Lamble
Detective Simmons
Peter Hobbes
Superintendent
Charles Lloyd Pack
Chemist
John Salew
Librarian
Janet Barrow
Mrs. Hobart
Percy Herbert
Farmer
Lynn Tracy
Air Hostess
John Harvey
Hobart's Brother
Jacques Tourneur
Director
Charles Bennett
Screenplay
Hal E. Chester
Screenplay / Executive Producer
M.R. James
Short Story
Frank Bevis
Producer
Edward Scaife
Director of Photography
Michael Gordon
Editor
Robert Lennard
Casting
Ken Adam
Production Design
Peter Glazier
Assistant Art Director
Charles Crafford
ADR & Dubbing / Sound Effects Editor
George Blackwell
Special Effects
Wally Veevers
Special Effects
Betty Lee
Hairstylist
Pamela Gayler
Continuity
S.D. Onions
Visual Effects Camera
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Basil Keys
Assistant Director
R. L. M. Davidson
Production Manager
Clifton Parker
Original Music Composer
Arthur Bradburn
Sound Recordist
Laurence Hepworth
Dan Lester
Leonard Llewellyn
Robert Brooks Turner
Michael Peake
Bert Simms
Leonard Sharp
Terry Sartain
Anthony John
Arthur Howell
Walter Horsbrugh
Shay Gorman
Richard Duke
George Curtis
Jimmy Cains
Daniel Brown
Peggy Scott Sanders
Anthony Richmond
Paul Phillips
Wallace Bosco
Ernest Blyth
Ballard Berkeley
Hyma Beckley
Alan Beaton
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 9, 1957
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Night of the Demon (U.S. title: Curse of the Demon) is a 1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. It was produced by Hal E. Chester and Frank Bevis, and was adapted from the M. R. James story "Casting the Runes". The film's storyline concerns an American psychologist (Andrews) who travels to England to investigate a satanic cult suspected in more than one death.
Turbulent artistic differences arose between producer Hal E. Chester on one side, and director Tourneur and writer Charles Bennett on the other over Chester's plan to show the demon on screen, but Chester prevailed. To accelerate the pace and make the film more commercial, the 96-minute original feature was trimmed down to 82 minutes prior to its release in the United States. This shortened version was retitled Curse of the Demon, playing in June 1958 as the second half of a double feature with either The True Story of Lynn Stuart (1958) or The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), depending on the local film market.
Though not a significant commercial success on its initial release in 1957, Night of the Demon has been highly acclaimed by critics and filmmakers in retrospect, and is considered one of the greatest horror films of all time. At the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100%.