- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- July 16, 1971 (53 years ago)
- Language
- English
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
The Devils
Cast
Oliver ReedFather Urbain Grandier
Vanessa RedgraveSister Jeanne des Anges
Dudley SuttonBaron de Laubardemont
Max AdrianIbert
Gemma JonesMadeleine de Brou
Murray MelvinFather-Canon Jean Mignon
Michael GothardFather Pierre Barre
Georgina HalePhilippe Trincant
Brian MurphyAdam
Christopher LogueCardinal Richelieu
Graham ArmitageLouis XIII
John WoodvineLouis Trincant
Andrew FauldsRangier
Kenneth ColleyLegrand
Judith ParisSister Agnes (miscredited as Sister Judith)
Catherine WillmerSister Catherine
Iza TellerSister Iza
Crew
Reviews
The Devils Review | Movie Read the Empire Movie review of The Devils. Whatever the moral perspective, it keeps you gripped right to the...
'The Devils': 1971 Horror On Abuse Of Power Couldn't Be More Timely Ken Russell's infamous, blasphemous, sexy religious horror reaches new audiences just in time to take on new meaning in the Trump era.
The Devils | Ken Russell Ken Russell was at his audacious best in this landmark 70s film, writes Philip French
The Devils R • 1 hour 51 min • 1971
Cinema: Madhouse Notes Madhouse Notes The drowning of a young couple in Women in Love and the Swiss idyll corrupted by an epicene aristocrat. The aborted honeymoon in the swaying railway car in The Music Lovers and...
The Devils Working from John Whiting's play of the same title, and Aldous Huxley's book, The Devils of Loudun, Ken Russell has taken some historical liberties in fashioning the story of Father Grandier (Oliver Reed), sensually liberated priest in 17th-century France whose ethics brought him into conflict with the political ambitions of Cardinal Richelieu and the Catholic Church, and whose virile presence and backstairs reputation cued the erotic fantasies of a humpbacked nun, Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave).
The Devils movie review & film summary (1971) A burning at the stake, an afternoon in the rack, headscrews, a douche with boiling water, nails into hands, induced vomiting, ripped tongues, dead babies,
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