The Devil's Messenger

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The Devil's Messenger

Directed by	Herbert L. Strock
Written by	Leo Guild
Produced by	Kenneth Herts, Gustaf Unger
Starring	Lon Chaney Jr. Karen Kadler Michael Hinn John Crawford Ralph Brown Inga Botorp
Cinematography	William G. Troiano
Edited by	Carl-Olov Skeppstedt Lennart Wallén
Music by	Alfred Gwynn
Distributed by	Herts-Lion International Corp.
Release date	1961 (1961)
Running time	72 minutes
Countries	Sweden United States
Language	English

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
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

v t e Films directed by Herbert L. Strock
The Magnetic Monster (1953) (uncredited) Riders to the Stars (1954) (uncredited) Gog (1954) Battle Taxi (1955) I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) Blood of Dracula (1957) How to Make a Monster (1958) Rider on a Dead Horse (1962) The Devil's Messenger (1962) The Crawling Hand (1963)

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