Burt Lancaster
The Rev. Anthony Anderson
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A comedy film based on George Bernard Shaw's play about a revolutionary American Puritan who masquerades as a minister and a British general during the War of Independence. Starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier and Janette Scott.
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- Comedy, History, Romance
- Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick
- 1959-08-20
The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 British-American film adaptation of the 1897 George Bernard Shaw play The Devil's Disciple. The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton, who replaced Alexander Mackendrick, and starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the 1959 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield 's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright.
The following evening, a group of British soldiers ride into Websterbridge to declare martial law and announce the impending arrival of the army, which is in sore need of supplies. When Timothy's grave is spotted, the soldiers recall the body as having been stolen from Springtown and vow revenge.
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In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
