Cry of the Banshee (1970)
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The inimitable Vincent Price puts an interesting spin on this otherwise pedestrian witch-hunt exercise -- a rehashing of Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm) and several of Roger Corman's numerous Poe variations from the previous decade. Here Price plays Edward Whitman, a corrupt,… More The inimitable Vincent Price puts an interesting spin on this otherwise pedestrian witch-hunt exercise -- a rehashing of Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm) and several of Roger Corman's numerous Poe variations from the previous decade. Here Price plays Edward Whitman, a corrupt, sadistic magistrate in 16th-century Ireland who puts a quick and deadly stop to the activities of a local Druidic coven... but not before the sect's leader Oona (Elisabeth Bergner) puts a curse on him and the Whitman family line, calling up a vengeful spirit known as a "sidhee" which takes flesh in the form of an otherwise mild-mannered stable boy (Patrick Mower). As swift and violent retribution works its way through the Whitman family, so does this film snowball toward its bizarre and muddled conclusion -- made all the more confounding by rather choppy editing. Just like Conqueror Worm and half a dozen others, this was fallaciously marketed by distributor American International Pictures as yet another adaptation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe -- as if AIP hadn't kicked Poe's corpse around enough in the '60s. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
- Directed By
- Gordon Hessler
- Genres
- Horror
PG,
- In Theaters
- Jul 22, 1970 Wide
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Cast
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Vincent Price
as Lord Edward Whitman
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Elisabeth Bergner
as Oona
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Essy Persson
as Lady Patricia
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Hugh Griffith
as Mickey
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Patrick Mower
as Roderick
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Hilary Dwyer
as Maureen
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Carl Rigg
as Harry
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Alden 'Stephen' Chase
as Sean Whitman
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Marshall Jones
as Father Tom
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Andrew McCullouch
as Bully Boy
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Michael Elphick
as Burke
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Pamela Fairbrother
as Margaret Donald
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Quinn O'Hara
as Witch Girl
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Janet Rossini
as Wench
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Godfrey James
as Rider
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Terry Martin
as Brander
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Richard Everett
as Timothy
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Sally Geeson
as Sarah
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Robert Hutton
as Guest
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Mickey Baker
as Rider
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Peter Benson
as Brander
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Guy Deghy
as Party Guest
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Gertan Klauber
as Landlord
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Stephen Rea
as Villager
- Tony Sibbald
- Dinah Stabb
- Guy Pierce
- Nancy Meckler
- Maurice Colbourne
