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Devils of Darkness is a 1965 British horror film directed by Lance Comfort and starring William Sylvester, Hubert Noël and Carole Gray. [1] It was written by Lyn Fairhurst. It was the last feature film directed by Comfort.
Horror films released in 1965; Title Director Cast Country Notes A Study in Terror: James Hill: John Neville, Donald Houston: United Kingdom [1] The Beach Girls and the Monster: Jon Hall: Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Walter Edmiston: United States [2] The Beast That Killed Women: Barry Mahon: Janet Banzet: United States: filmed at a nudist colony [3 ...
William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American actor, chiefly known for his film and television work in the United Kingdom. [1] A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he was a star of British B-movies in the 1950s and 1960s, but gained widespread recognition for his role as Dr. Heywood Floyd in the landmark science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Cast Genre Notes 1965: The Alphabet Murders: Frank Tashlin: Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley: Mystery: The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders: Terence Young: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson: Comedy: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita: Delmer Daves: Maureen O'Hara, Richard Todd: Drama: Be My Guest: Lance Comfort: David Hemmings, Avril Angers ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1965 films. It includes 1965 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for horror films released in the year 1965 .
William Sylvester is quite competent as the blind composer while Barbara Shelley proves adequate as his faithless wife. Elizabeth Shepherd thefts many scenes as the composer's efficient if beautiful secretary, who secretly is in love with him. Alex Davion suffices as the portrait painter, being well cast as the he-man lover of the composer's wife.
The film gained a new audience in the 2000s in response to Conrad's elevation to cult status as a purveyor of late-1950s and early-1960s pre-Beatles British kitsch, and received a Region 2 DVD release in 2009 in a double bill with Comfort's 1962 film The Painted Smile.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "By killing off the blackmailer relatively early on, this film robs itself of its principal asset, for Robert Shaw is chillingly effective in an intelligent performance which, for about twenty minutes – his methodical preparations for the crime, his scenes with the boy, his verbal duet with the Inspector – deludes one into thinking that Lance Comfort's ...