The Hellfire Club (film)

The Hellfire Club

Directed by	Robert S. Baker Monty Berman
Produced by	Robert S. Baker Monty Berman
Written by	Leon Griffiths Jimmy Sangster
Starring	Keith Michell
Music by	Clifton Parker
Edited by	Frederick Wilson
Release dates	February 1961 (1961-02)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Hellfire Club is a 1961 film inspired by the historical Hellfire Club, Sir Francis Dashwood's infamous 'Gentlemen's' society of the 18th century. It starred Keith Michell and featured Peter Cushing in a small cameo as enigmatic attorney Mr Merryweather.

According to the film, the club was famed for its depravity, debauchery, and devil worship. Although not a Hammer Films production, there are visual similarities. The script was co-written by Jimmy Sangster, and co-stars Hammer regular Miles Malleson.

Cast

Keith Michell as Jason
Adrienne Corri as Isobel
Peter Cushing as Merryweather
Peter Arne as Thomas
Kai Fischer as Yvonne
David Lodge as Timothy
Bill Owen as Martin
Miles Malleson as Judge
Martin Stephens as Jason as a Boy
Andrew Faulds as Lord Netherden
Jean Lodge as Lady Netherden
Francis Matthews as Sir Hugh Manning
Desmond Walter-Ellis as Lord Chorley
Denis Shaw as Sir Richard
Tutte Lemkow as Higgins

External links

The Hellfire Club at the Internet Movie Database

Films by Jimmy Sangster

As writer	A Man on the Beach (1955) X the Unknown (1956) The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Dracula (1958) The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) Intent to Kill (1958) The Snorkel (1958) Blood of the Vampire (1958) The Trollenberg Terror (1958) Jack the Ripper (1959) The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) The Mummy (1959) The Brides of Dracula (1960) The Criminal (1960) The Siege of Sidney Street (1960) The Hellfire Club (1961) The Terror of the Tongs (1961) Taste of Fear (1961, also producer) The Pirates of Blood River (1962) Paranoiac (1963, also producer) The Maniac (1963, also producer) Nightmare (1964, also producer) The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) Hysteria (1965) The Nanny (1965, also producer) Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Deadlier Than the Male (1967) The Anniversary (1968, also producer) Foreign Exchange (1970, also producer) Crescendo (1970) A Taste of Evil (1971) Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973) The Legacy (1978) Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979, also producer) No Place to Hide (1981) The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

As director	The Horror of Frankenstein (1970, also writer) Lust for a Vampire (1971) Fear in the Night (1972, also writer)

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