The Devil's Disciple (film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Devil's Disciple


imdb_id = 0052735
director = Guy Hamilton
writer = George Bernard Shaw (play)
John Dighton & Roland Kibbee (screenplay)
starring = Burt Lancaster
Kirk Douglas
Laurence Olivier
producer = Harold Hecht
music = Richard Rodney Bennett
cinematography = Jack Hildyard
distributor = United Artists
released = 1959
runtime = 83 mins.
country = UK/US
language = English

The The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 British- American film directed by Guy Hamilton, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw, and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Olivier.

Lancaster and Douglas made several films together over the decades, including "I Walk Alone" (1948), "Gunfight at the OK Corral" (1957), "Seven Days in May" (1964), and "Tough Guys" (1986), which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination. Douglas was always second-billed under Lancaster in these films but, with the exception of "I Walk Alone", in which Douglas played a villain, their roles were usually more or less the same size.

Cast

*Burt Lancaster as Reverend Anthony Anderson
*Kirk Douglas as Richard 'Dick' Dudgeon
*Laurence Olivier as General John Burgoyne
*Janette Scott as Judith Anderson
*Eva Le Gallienne as Mrs. Dudgeon
*Harry Andrews as Major Swindon
*Basil Sydney as Lawyer Hawkins
*George Rose as British sergeant
*Neil McCallum as Christopher Dudgeon
*Mervyn Johns as Reverend Maindeck Parshotter (the loyal parson)
*David Horne as Uncle William
*Erik Chitty as Uncle Titus
*Allan Cuthbertson as British captain
*Percy Herbert as British lieutenant
*Phyllis Morris as Wife of Titus