The Devil's Messenger

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. 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).

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)

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